| Nawathinehena | |
|---|---|
| Nawathi'nehena, nawaθiʔnehena | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Oklahoma |
| Ethnicity | Nawathi'neha/Southern Arapaho |
| Era | attested 1899[1] |
Algic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nwa |
nwa | |
| Glottolog | nawa1259 |
Nawathinehena is an extinctAlgonquian language formerly spoken among theArapaho. It had aphonological development quite different from eitherGros Ventre orArapaho 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 byAlfred L. Kroeber from the Oklahoma Arapaho.
While it shares many important phonological innovations with Arapaho, it presents the merger of *r, *θ and *s with *t as t instead of n as in Arapaho, a sound change reminiscent of Blackfoot and Cheyenne.[2][3] PA *w changes to m instead of merging with *r, *s and *n as n.[citation needed]
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Some numbers of the Nawathinehena language:
| Nawathinehena | English |
|---|---|
| tcäⁿcinaha’ | one |
| nīsähä’ | two |
| nahaha | three |
| niabaha’ | four |
| niotanähä’ | five |
| neixθioti | six |
| nīciotaⁿ | seven |
| nexiotähähäⁿ | eight |
| cioxtähähäⁿ | nine |
| maxtoxtanähäⁿ | ten |
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