<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings Kevin, I am glad to see your Indigenous Tweets project is getting some good press! <div><br></div><div>Phil</div><div>ILAT mg<br><div><br><div><div>On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter<br><br>BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER<br><br>Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo? An ambitious new project is collecting tweets from indigenous languages around the world.<br> <br>Twitter's robust community of non-English speakers just got another boost with the launch of a new site called Indigenous Tweets. The site, created by St. Louis-based computational linguistics professor Kevin Patrick Scannell, collects tweets from more than 70 languages. These range from better-known tongues such as Haitian Creole and Basque to the downright esoteric Gamilaraay, an Australian indigenous language with approximately three living speakers.<br> <br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1747283/indigenous-tweet-preserving-indigenous-languages-via-twitter">http://www.fastcompany.com/1747283/indigenous-tweet-preserving-indigenous-languages-via-twitter</a><br> </font></font></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>