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SIL - Scripture Engagement

AppsDigitalMarketing and Distribution

Scripture App Builder

Create customized mobile apps with synchronized Scripture text and audio
Not one app, but a user-friendly tool to build your apps! Bible translation organisations are using Scripture App Builder to make the Bible available as Android and iOS apps in languages around the world. Scripture App Builder helps you to…
Richard
September 22, 2020
Language Issues

Language and Identity in a Multilingual, Migrating World

Stephen Quakenbush, Gary Simons (eds.) (2019)
"Bible translation agencies may want to consider their frequent appeal to the special place of the mother tongue as “heart language” in producing greater comprehension and impact. In many areas of the world, bilingualism or multilingualism is the norm. People…
Richard
January 27, 2020
AppsDigitalFilm and Video

Story Producer App

"Publish early, publish small, publish often - this is exactly what Story Producer empowers local communities to do!" Story Producer (SP app) is an offline workflow management tool for local language speakers to translate and produce their own local language…
Richard
November 26, 2019
Film and VideoUnderstanding Scripture

Bible Backgrounds

Video Templates from SIL International Media Services
Beautiful photographs of Holy Land scenery and aspects of lifestyle and customs of Bible times. Templates contain photos, music, and scripts allowing the translator to produce a video in their own language. Bible Backgrounds is a resource tool based on…
Richard
October 5, 2019
Audio

Glyssen

Producing scripts for dramatized audio recordings of Scripture
"This software is reducing the amount of time it takes for us to script a language from 4 days down to 4 hours – all the while increasing accuracy for recording teams worldwide." - Jonathan Huguenin, Faith Comes by Hearing…
Richard
September 27, 2019
DevelopmentLanguage IssuesStrategic Planning

Sustaining Language Use

Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development
Paul Lewis, Gary Simons (2016)
How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL…
Richard
September 27, 2018
Bible Translation

Bible Translation Basics

Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way
Harriet Hill, Ernst-August Gutt, Margaret Hill, Christoph Unger, Rick Floyd (2011)
Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended…
Richard
August 30, 2011