UA Researcher Part of Global Language Preservation Initiative (fwd link)

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UA Researcher Part of Global Language Preservation Initiative

By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications, June 29, 2012
USA

UA researcher Susan D. Penfield is serving on the advisory committee to the
Endangered Languages Project, a global linguistic diversity initiative
seeded by Google.

Seeded by Google.org, the Endangered Languages Project has been launched
for people around the world who are interested in learning about and
working to preserve near-extinct languages – and a University of Arizona
researcher is among those advising the initiative.

Susan D. Penfield, research coordinator for the UA's Confluencenter for
Creative Inquiry and the Center for Educational Resources in Culture,
Language and Literacy, or CERCLL, has been serving as a member of Google's
invitation-only Alliance Advisory Committee.

Penfield and other members of the advisory committee have "provided
guidance, helping shape the site and ensure that it addresses the interests
and needs of language communities," Google noted on its official blog,
announcing the project launch on June 20.

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