CU linguistics professor creates database, helps preserve Northern Arapaho Tribe language

BOULDER, Colo. — For years, the number of people who could speak the Arapaho language has been dwindling. But a linguistics professor at CU Boulder is collaborating with the Northern Arapaho Tribe to preserve their language.

From his office in Boulder, Andy Cowell helped to document and translate Arapaho.

“There’s Arapaho being spoken and then we have the breakdown of it and we have free translations down here,” said Andy Cowell, a linguistics professor at CU Boulder…

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