| Nawathinehena | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | United States |
| Native speakers | extinct (date missing) |
| Language family |
Algic
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nwa |
Nawathinehena is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken among the Arapaho people. [1] It had a phonological development quite different from either Gros Ventre or Arapaho proper. It has been identified as the former language of the Southern Arapaho, who switched to speaking Arapaho proper in the 19th century. However, the language is not well attested, being documented only in a vocabulary collected in 1899 by Alfred L. Kroeber from the Oklahoma Arapaho. Among its divergent features is the appearance of Proto-Algonquian */s/ as /t/.