SIL Publications

Academic publications of SIL International and our worldwide branches

Publications available for purchase

Publications Catalog Browse and shop securely on-line for SIL books, software, and journals currently available from SIL International Publications.
Mexico Branch publications Publications available through SIL Mexico.
Philippines publications: Publications available through SIL Philippines.

Ethnologue (Web edition)
SIL Bibliography More than 20,000 entries in this on-line bibliography of academic and vernacular publications by SIL and its members.
SIL French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Journal of Translation, an online, peer-reviewed journal of translation theory and practice.
SIL e-Books, book-length documents on language and culture, especially as related to lesser-known and endangered languages.
SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork, a series of articles on the broad range of topics that inform SIL’s work.
SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description, includes primary data and products of fieldwork such as wordlists, interlinear text collections, and descriptive papers.
SIL Electronic Book Reviews, reviews of scholarly works, for the benefit of SIL field linguists and language development workers, and the scholarly community at large.
SIL Electronic Survey Reports, reports on sociolinguistic surveys carried out by SIL field members and others.
SIL Electronic Working Papers, papers on language and culture, especially as related to lesser-known and endangered languages.
Work Papers of the SIL, University of North Dakota Session