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SIL International: An Emic View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Kenneth S. Olson
Kenneth S. Olson*
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SIL International and University of North Dakota
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SIL International, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236. [ken_olson@sil.org]
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Recent concern among linguists about endangered languages has increased interest in fieldwork to document these languages. This in turn has brought a new generation of linguists into contact with the largest linguistic fieldwork organization in the world, SIL International, and its primary partner organization Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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SIL International and the Disciplinary Culture of Linguistics
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Language , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , September 2009, pp. 646 - 658
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