CU Boulder project is preserving and teaching the Arapaho language

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado Boulder is leading an effort to preserve the Arapaho language, for which there are fewer than 100 living native speakers today.

“There are not a lot of speakers left, and all the speakers are now getting into their 70s and even 80s,” said CU Boulder linguistics professor Andrew Cowell.

The Arapaho are a Native American tribe whose historic lands include Colorado and Wyoming…

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