Arapahoan languages

Arapahoan
Araphoic
Geographic
distribution
United States
Linguistic classificationAlgic
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologarap1273

The Arapahoan languages are a subgroup of the Plains group of Algonquian languages: Nawathinehena, Arapaho, and Gros Ventre.

Nawathinehena is extinct and Arapaho and Gros Ventre are both endangered.[1][2]

Besawunena, attested only from a word list collected by Kroeber, differs only slightly from Arapaho, but a few of its sound changes resemble those seen in Gros Ventre. 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.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International
  2. ^ Goddard 2001:74-76, 79
  3. ^ "Nawathinehena (Nawathi'nehena)". www.native-languages.org.