Susan Smythe Kung is the Manager of the

Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository housed in LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin. AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digi ...

at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. Kung is a linguist who specializes in endangered language archiving and the

Huehuetla Tepehua Huehuetla Tepehua is a moribund Tepehua language spoken in Huehuetla, northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to t ...

language of

Hidalgo Hidalgo may refer to: People * Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility * Hidalgo (surname) Places Mexico * Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico * Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila * Hidalgo, Nuevo Le� ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 2007 from the University of Texas at Austin, and her dissertation, ''A Descriptive Grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua'' won the Mary R. Haas Book Award from the

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is an international organization founded in 1981 devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. SSILA has an annual winter meeti ...

. Kung is the President of DELAMAN, the Digital Endangered Languages and Music Archiving Network from 2016-2018 and is a founding member of the Linguistics Data Interest Group (LDIG) of the

Research Data Alliance The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a research community organization started in 2013 by the European Commission, the American National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innova ...

Selected publications

* Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, David I. Beaver, Shobhana Chelliah, Stanley Dubinsky, Richard P. Meier, Nick Thieberger, Keren Rice and Anthony C. Woodbury. 2018. Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field. Linguistics 56(1): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032 * Berez-Kroeker, A. L., H.N. Andreassen, L. Gawne, G. Holton, S.S. Kung, P. Pulsifer, L.B. Collister, The Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics Group, and the Linguistics Data Interest Group. (2017). Draft: The Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics (Version 0.1). http://site.uit.no/linguisticsdatacitation/austinprinciples/ Accessed 1/17/2018 * Kung, Susan Smythe and Joel Sherzer. 2013. "The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview." ''Oral Tradition'', 28/2 (pp. 379–388). * Kung, Susan Smythe. 2012. "Los compadres. Cuento en Tepehua de Huehuetla he compadres. A story in Huehuetla Tepehua." In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), ''Las lenguas totonacos y tepehuas. Textos y otros materiales para su estudio he Totonac and Tepehua languages. Texts and other materials for their study'. Mexico City: UNAM, pp. 55–77. * Kung, Susan Smythe. 2012. "Los dos hermanos. Cuento en Tepehua de Huehuetla he two brothers. A story in Huehuetla Tepehua." In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), ''Las lenguas totonacos y tepehuas. Textos y otros materiales para su estudio he Totonac and Tepehua languages. Texts and other materials for their study'. Mexico City: UNAM, pp. 78–96.

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Huehuetla Tepehua Collection of Susan Smythe Kung
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