SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. It provides resources in language research through Ethnologue.com.
SIL International, originally the Summer Institute of Linguistics, started as a small summer training session in Arkansas in 1934 to familiarize missionaries of what later became Wycliffe Bible Translators with basic linguistic, anthropological and translation principles. The founder was William Cameron Townsend (1896–1982), a missionary to Guatemala. One of the students at this first summer institute was Kenneth L. Pike (1912–2000), who was to become the foremost figure in the history of SIL. He served as SIL's President from 1942–1979 and then as President Emeritus until his death in 2000. Dr. Pike was nominated fifteen consecutive years (1982-1996) for the Nobel Peace Prize. SIL's current president is Carolyn P. Miller, who took the office in 1999 and participates in the liguistics program at Houghton College.
By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.
Translators garner the meaning of words in one language and reproduce that meaning with natural flow in sometimes very different characteristics of a second language.
SummerInstitute of Linguistics, eller SIL International (ofte referert til berre som SIL) er ein misjonsorganisasjon med hovudkvarter i Dallas i (USA), som har spesialisert seg på lingvistiske undersøkingar av ukjende språk.
SIL har vorte kritiskert for to tilhøve: I klassifiseringa av språk og dialektar er det alltid vanskeleg å dra skiljet mellom språk og dialekt.
SIL er også kritisert for å vere ein misjonsorganisasjon, dermed indirekte for kulturimperialisme, der målet med verksemda er å erstatte verdsbiletet og kulturen til urfolk rundt om i verda med det kristne verdsbiletet.
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