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 ...

Fewer than 100 people remain in the world who speak Arapaho. A University of Colorado Boulder professor has worked for two decades with the Northern Arapaho to ensure the language is not forgotten.

The Arapaho words beteen, meaning “sacred,” and beteneyooo, “one’s body,” have a special connection for those who speak the language. Their linguistic similarity isn’t a coincidence. Such examples of ...

There are only about 50 people worldwide who are native speakers of the Arapaho language. The only native speakers left are part of the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming, according to University of ...

Northern Arapaho tribal elder Mark Soldier Wolf, with his granddaughter, Blue Moccasin Soldier Wolf. The Arapaho Language School in Arapaho, one of two Arapaho-language immersion preschools on Wyoming ...

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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 ...