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| | SIL International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | SIL International is a non-profit, Christian, 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. |
 | | SIL International, originally the Summer Institute of Linguistics, started as a small summer training session in Arkansas in 1934 to familiarise missionaries of what later became Wycliffe Bible Translators with basic linguistic, anthropological and translation principles. |
 | | SIL's current president is, who took the office in 1999 and participates in the liguistics program at Houghton College. |
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