Arapahoan languages

Arapahoan languages

Infobox Language family
name=Arapahoan
region=United States
familycolor=American
fam1=Algic
fam2=Algonquian
fam3=Plains
child1=Arapaho
child2=Gros Ventre
child3=Nawathinehena

The Arapahoan languages are a subgroup of the Plains group of Algonquian languages. Nawathinehena is extinct and Arapaho and Gros Ventre are both endangered. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92346 Ethnologue entry for Arapaho languages]
* Marianne Mithun. 1999. "The Languages of Native North America". Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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