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SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy,
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See moreWilliam Cameron Townsend, a Presbyterian minister, founded the organization in 1934, after a Christian mission in the early 1930s, with the Disciples of Christ among the Kaqchikel Maya people in
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See moreSIL's principal contribution to linguistics has been the data that have been gathered and analyzed from over 1,000 minority and endangered languages, many of which had not been previously studied academically. SIL endeavors to share both the data and the results of analysis in
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See moreSIL has Consultative Status with UNESCO as an NGO, and has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as an advocate for
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See moreEthnologue and ISO 639-3 codes
Ethnologue: A Guide to the World's Languages, is published by SIL, since 1951. Starting with the...
See moreIn 1979, SIL's agreement was officially terminated by the Mexican government after critiques from anthropologists regarding the combination of education and missionary activities in indigenous communities, though SIL continued to be active in that country. At a
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See moreBesides the headquarters in Dallas, SIL has offices and locally incorporated affiliated organizations in the following countries:
Africa
• Cameroon: Yaoundé (central office), Bamenda (regional...
See moreThe 1947 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America passed a resolution that the work of SIL "should be strongly commended by our Society and welcomed as one of the most promising developments in applied linguistics in this country."
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See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseWas this helpful?Thanks! Give more feedback I think the passage I added definetly belongs in the intro. This is a question of SIL going against not just the rest of the linguistic community, but the majority of the speakers as well. The classification of Flemish seems to be an especially bad call, since the Flemish themselves seem not to be comfortable at all with the description of their variant of Dutch as a separate language.
SIL's classification of Scandinavian languages contains even more oddities. Norwegianhas been …Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- People also ask
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