SIL Global
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| Formation | 1934 |
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| Type | Scientific institute |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States |
Founder | William Cameron Townsend |
Executive director | Johnstone Ndunde |
Board chair | Hans Combrink |
| Affiliations | Evangelical Christianity |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Summer Institute of Linguistics |
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purpose. It should be removed.SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics International) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.
Based on its language documentation work, SIL publishes a database, Ethnologue, of its research into the world's languages, and develops and publishes software programs for language documentation, such as FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) and Lexique Pro.
Its main offices in the United States are located at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas.