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The Arapaho Project" is an effort made by the Arapaho people to promote and restore their traditional language and culture. [8] Despite hope for the language, its relatively few active users and the fact that it has seen recent population decreases render Arapaho an endangered language .
It had speakers among the Northern Arapaho as recently as the late 1920s. [citation needed] Nawathinehena is also attested only from a word list collected by Kroeber, and was the most divergent language of the group. [citation needed] [3] Another reported Arapahoan variety is the extinct Ha'anahawunena, but there is no documentation of it.
By producing audio and visual materials, they have provided ways for younger generations to learn the language. In 1995 this effort was matched by Dr. S. N. Greymorning, who established an Arapaho language immersion preschool program. Arapaho language instruction is also offered all throughout grade school.
Currently, the language may be acquired by children, for a population estimate as recent as 2007 lists an increase to 1,000 speakers and notes that the language is in use in schools, bilingual education efforts begun on Wind River Reservation in the 1980s and the Arapaho Language Lodge, a successful immersion program, was established in 1993 ...
This category contains articles with Arapaho-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
The Arapaho language, Heenetiit, is an Algonquian language closely related to Gros Ventre (Ahe/A'ananin), whose people are seen as an early offshoot of the Arapaho. Blackfeet and Cheyenne are the other Algonquian-speakers on the Plains, but their languages are quite different from Arapaho.
1998. "Ethnolinguistic Dimensions of Northern Arapaho Language Shift", Anthropological Linguistics 40:1:1–64. 2001. "The Motion-Shape of Whirlwind Woman in Arapaho Women's Quillwork". European Review of Native American Studies. 14:1:11–21. 2002. "Northern Arapaho Conversion of a Christian Text: The Our Father". Ethnohistory 48:4:689–712 ...