<k><mods:affiliation>Matthias Brenzinger is a tenured researcher at the Institut fuer Afrikanistik, University of Cologne, Germany and an author. He has conducted fieldwork and published writings on endangered languages on the African continent and supported communities’ language maintenance activities. He is involved in UNESCO projects related to endangered language issues, and co‐chairs the UNESCO Ad‐hoc Expert Group on Endangered Language. He is the Secretary General of WOCAL (World Congress of African Linguistics) and organizer of WOCAL6, which will be held at the University of Cologne in 2009.</mods:affiliation>
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