Arapahoan languages
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| Arapahoan | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
United States |
| Linguistic classification: | Algic
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| Subdivisions: |
Gros Ventre (aka Atsina)
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The Arapahoan languages are a subgroup of the Plains group of Algonquian languages. Nawathinehena, Besawunena, and Ha'anahawunena are extinct and Arapaho and Gros Ventre are both endangered.[1][2] Besawunena, is only attested from a wordlist 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. There are no recordings or attestations of Ha'anahawunena.
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Goddard, Ives (2001). "The Algonquian Languages of the Plains." In Plains, Part I, ed. Raymond J. DeMallie. Vol. 13 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 71-79.
- Marianne Mithun (1999). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue entry for Arapaho languages
- "Arapaho" at Native-languages.org
- "Gros Ventre" at Native-languages.org
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