All Local, All The Time
All Local, All The Time
Courtesy Photo A statue of Chief Niwot depicts the man prominently showing his right hand, further evidence that translations have been incorrect up to now.
A cross-disciplinary research effort by a number of professors at the University of Colorado-Boulder and Colorado State University has uncovered a surprising mistake in the translation of the Arapaho language. The Arapaho word “niwot” or “nowoo3” in the Hinono’ei language, which has long been thought to mean “left-hand,” turns out to instead be correctly translated as “right-hand.”
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