About

About SIL Ethiopia

Who we are

In partnership with local communities, SIL Ethiopia develops skills and builds capacity for sustainable language development.

Vision

We long to see people flourishing in community using the languages they value most.

Mission

We advocate, build capacity, and work with local communities to apply language expertise that advances meaningful development and education.

85+

Living Languages

16+

Languages in Multilingual Education Projects

40+

Years in Ethiopia

2000+

Publications

Our Goals

Serving Ethiopia's Language Communities

Language Development

Local language development, community literacy initiatives and mother tongue education programmes

Language & Culture

Capacity development in the academic study of languages, and the production of grammars and dictionaries

Tools & Resources

Local language websites, publications, special keyboarding solutions, advocacy and awareness raising in local languages

Local Focus

By 2025, a growing number of language communities in the Horn of Africa will be strengthened through the work of SIL Ethiopia to learn, cultivate, and utilize the mother-tongue more effectively.

We aim to see:

34 Language Communities with Mother-Tongue based Multilingual Education Programmes
43 Language Communities in Digital Language Services
45 Language Communities in Language Technology