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Name: Nawathinehena Type: Language Alternate Names: Northern Arapaho; Arapaho-Atsina Once Spoken in: USA Code: nwa Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Arapahoan; Arapaho; Arapahoan Isolate (arho) Brief Description: "Nawathinehena was an Algonquian language closely related to Arapaho that was spoken south of the Northern Arapaho bands on the High Plains in the early nineteenth century. Its phonology is quite distinct from that of Arapaho and shares some innovations with Cheyenne, which was presumably a southern neighbour at an earlier location. The Nawathinehena adopted the language of the Northern Arapaho, to whom they were closely related and allied, in the course of the nineteenth century, and the distinct Nawathinehena language is known only from a vocabulary collected by A.L. Kroeber among the Southern Arapaho in 1899." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 19

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed