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A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone

  • Written by Andrew Cowell, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder
imageThere are fewer than 100 speakers of the Arapaho language today.Mark Makela/GettyImages

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language.

When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to learn about the Indigenous language of the Boulder and Denver...

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