The Arapaho Language: Documentation and Revitalization

Project description

Project goals

• Produce an analytical dictionary and text concordance that will contain grammatical information, text references, examples from texts and usage information.
• Incorporate diverse linguistic varieties into the Arapaho 'canon' of audio and written texts, and especially increase the documentation of women's speech.
• Contribute to comprehensive grammatical description of Arapaho.
• Contribute to the historical and comparative study of the Algic languages, including inferences about the early history of Algic peoples.

• Distribute an audio dictionary that will be helpful to learners of Arapaho.
• Assist master-apprentice teams.
• Assist in the creation of Arapaho language teaching materials, including audio recordings.

Products (under construction)

• Arapaho-English dictionary
• English-Arapaho dictionary
• Audio dictionary
• Texts and transcribed recordings

Other web pages with resources on Arapaho:

• The Arapaho Project at the University of Colorado
• The Arapaho tribe's language education pages
• Webpage of Jeffrey Anderson, an anthropologist who works on Arapaho.

This project is supported by a grant from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Preliminary research in the summer of 2003 was supported by the Endangered Language Fund.