Endangered Languages Projects

The following projects include the documentation of the Arapaho language:

A Conversational Database of the Arapaho Language in Video Format

Andrew Cowell, The University of Colorado. 2008-2010.

This project will create a video database of Arapaho conversational interaction, with extensive linguistic and cultural annotation. The database will be created using the ELAN platform, which is part of the DOBES project of the Max Planck Institute. A text-only version of the database will be created in an XML format, displayed on the world wide web via XSL. The XML version will be open access, while the vidoe database will be deposited at SOAS and available to interested ... more

An Arapaho analytical dictionary and concordance

Lisa Conathan, University of California at Berkeley. 2004-2006.

Documentation and production of an analytical and cultural dictionary which include, in addition to English-Arapaho and Arapaho-English glosses, morphological analysis, etymology (including Proto-Algonquian and Proto-Algic roots), and references to a text ... more