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  • Michael Cahill, linguistics coordinator for SIL International, says, "There are cases where texting is helping to preserve languages" by encouraging young people to write in their native tongue.

    How the Lowly Text Message May Save Languages That Could Otherwise Fade 2009

  • But companies that develop predictive text say they have created cellphone software for fewer than 80 of the world's 6,912 languages cataloged by SIL International, a Dallas organization that works to preserve languages.

    How the Lowly Text Message May Save Languages That Could Otherwise Fade 2009

  • Occidental College has a historic connection to the Summer Institute of Linguistics now known as SIL International.

    Runnin' the Great Wall... Phil Razem 2008

  • This list of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z is based on data by Ethnologue, a publication of SIL International.

    Archive 2006-06-01 The Nag 2006

  • A good resource is NRSI: Computers & Writing SystemsThe NRSI is a research and development team within SIL International, whose mission is to provide guidance, information, research and development for SIL and its partners to facilitate the use of non-Roman and complex scripts in linguistic study, translation, literacy, and publishing.

    Non-Roman Scripts David Bigwood 2005

  • A good resource is NRSI: Computers & Writing SystemsThe NRSI is a research and development team within SIL International, whose mission is to provide guidance, information, research and development for SIL and its partners to facilitate the use of non-Roman and complex scripts in linguistic study, translation, literacy, and publishing.

    Archive 2005-08-07 David Bigwood 2005

  • SIL International started in 1934 as the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a small summer camp whose purpose was to train Missionaries for SIL's sister organization, [[Wycliffe Bible Translators]]

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] RichardBurn 2010

  • SIL International started in 1934 as the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a small summer camp whose purpose was to train Missionaries for SIL's sister organization, [[Wycliffe Bible Translators]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] RichardBurn 2010

  • SIL International started in 1934 as the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a small summer camp whose purpose was to train Missionaries for SIL's sister organization,

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] RichardBurn 2010

  • But companies that develop predictive text say they have created cellphone software for fewer than 80 of the world's 6,912 languages cataloged by SIL International, a Dallas organization that works to preserve languages.

    Culture Making 2009

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