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SIL International (or: Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Located in Dallas, TX, est. 1934. Founded over 70 years ago, SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world's lesser-known languages. SIL's staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through literacy, linguistics, translation, and other academic disciplines. SIL makes its services available to all without regard to religious belief, political ideology, gender, race, or ethnic background. Wikipedia writes: The organization's focus on language description, language development and Bible translation, and the missionary activities carried out by many of its field workers have been criticized by linguists and anthropologists who argue that SIL aims to change indigenous cultures, which exacerbates the problems that cause language endangerment and language death. Fonts in Cyberspace is an archive of many multilingual fonts. SIL Fonts, free to all, and professionally put together include the following: - Charis SIL Font: A serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized for readability in long printed documents. Charis SIL download.
- Doulos SIL Font: A Unicode font with a comprehensive set of characters needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system (including IPA), whether for phonetic or orthographic needs.
- Gentium: Supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. Gentium Plus supports a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. It was developed between 2003 and 2014 by J. Victor Gaultney (main designer), Annie Olsen, Iska Routamaa, and Becca Hirsbrunner. CTAN download link. Microsite. Open Font Library link.
- Lateef: An extended Arabic script font for OpenType and AAT systems. See also here.
- Nastaliq Navees: Font package for Nastaliq style of calligraphy
- Scheherazade: An extended Arabic script font for OpenType and AAT systems. Contributors include Jonathan Kew and Bob Hallissy.
- SIL Apparatus Fonts: Symbols used for Biblical text apparatus
- SIL Dai Banna Fonts: Xishuangbanna Dai (New Tai Lue) fonts for Windows and Macintosh
- SIL Encore Fonts: Library of phonetic characters and linguistic symbols. This package includes SIL Doulos (similar to Times), SIL Sophia (similar to Univers), SIL Manuscript (monospace, like Prestige), and SIL Charis (enlarged x-height). Included is Sophia Nubian (2008), which is based on an old Nubian text.
- SIL Encore IPA Fonts: Phonetic fonts
- SIL Font Cache Extender: This Macintosh extension increases the MacOS font cache size. It is useful when working with large fonts, such as SIL Greek, SIL Hebrew, or any GX font.
- SIL Greek Font System (Galatia): Greek font package for Windows and Macintosh. See also here.
- SIL Greek Unicode Font (Galatia SIL): Greek Unicode OpenType fonts
- SIL Hebrew Font System (Ezra): Hebrew font package for Windows and Macintosh
- SIL Hebrew Unicode Font (Ezra SIL): Hebrew Unicode OpenType fonts for Windows
- SIL Tai Dam Fonts: Tai Dam fonts for Windows and Macintosh
- Tai Heritage Pro (1995-2017), designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script. Developed by Faah Baccam, Walt Agee, Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen and Eric Hays.
- SIL Unicode IPA Font beta: Released as Doulos SIL with a more extensive character inventory.
- SIL Vai Fonts: The SIL Vai Fonts are regular and bold versions of the African Vai script used in Liberia
. In 2009, Benjamin Yang (SIL) published the free Vai Slant Unicode. - SIL Xishuang Banna Fonts: Xishuangbanna Dai (New Tai Lue) fonts for Windows and Macintosh
- SIL Yi Font: Unicode-based Yi font for Windows
- Unicode BMP Fallback SIL font (2008). Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode 5.1, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.
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