David Frank

David Frank is a linguistics consultant and a translation consultant for SIL Americas. He and his wife Lynn first served with SIL on the island of Saint Lucia for nearly 17 years, from 1984 through 2000, and that is where their three children (all now grown and married) were born and lived their early years. Since the end of 2000 the Franks have been based at the JAARS Center in Waxhaw, North Carolina. David’s specialty is creole languages, having worked first on Saint Lucian French Creole, then Gullah, an English creole, and now Portuguese Creole of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. David is also the editor of the Journal of Translation, a publication of the SIL International Translation Department.