Software package for language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts.

This site enables collaboration on the web between Chorus-enabled software applications WeSay and Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx). It is provided as a service to language communities by the Language Software Group of the Linguistics Institute at Payap University, Thailand.

The parent site of this wiki. Its goal is to help identify the software best needed to help you accomplish language-related tasks.

myWorkSafe aims to provide a zero-configuration backup system for a particular kind of user. That user does best when things are simple. He or she uses computers primarily as an appliance for doing language-based development work. Since myWorkSafe knows about file types and the files that are typically used in SIL's fieldwork (e.g. translation or dictionary making), it automatically finds and backs up those data when the thumbdrive is plugged in.

Rapid Words is a website dedicated to explaining the Rapid Word Collection Method which has been successfully used to collect upwards of 20,000 words in a language in two weeks using a collaborative community workshop approach.

WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them (no backslash codes, just forms to fill in). The program is customizable and task-oriented, giving the advisor the ability to turn on/off tasks as needed and as the user receives training for those tasks. WeSay uses a standard xml format, so data can be exchanged with linguist-oriented tools like FieldWorks. Users can collaborate via USB flash drive, email, and (soon) via network connections.

This website hosts Ron Moe's system of approximately 1,800 semantic domains and questions that are used to prime the mental pump in collecting words for a dictionary in a language. These domains are also used to group word senses in a thesaurus.

Take your dictionary project to the next level by involving tens or hundreds more in expanding your lexicon. Engage your language's diaspora speakers on the web or their phone, wherever they are.