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Arapahoan languages

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

Nawathinehena and Gros Ventre are extinct and Arapaho is endangered.

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]

Another reported Arapahoan variety is the extinct Ha'anahawunena, but there is no documentation of it.[citation needed]

The Glottolog database classifies the Arapahoan languages as follows:

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