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TheArapahoan languages are a subgroup of thePlains group ofAlgonquian languages:Nawathinehena,Arapaho, andGros Ventre.

Nawathinehena and Gros Ventre are extinct and Arapaho is endangered.^[1][2]

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][3]}

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:^[4]

• Goddard, Ives (2001). "The Algonquian Languages of the Plains." InPlains, Part I, ed. Raymond J. DeMallie. Vol. 13 ofHandbook 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.

• "Arapaho" at Native-languages.org
• "Gros Ventre" at Native-languages.org

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