• DOI:10.1086/463813
• Corpus ID: 143895922

Phonetic Shifts in Algonquian Languages

@article{Michelson1935PhoneticSI,
  title={Phonetic Shifts in Algonquian Languages},
  author={Truman Michelson},
  journal={International Journal of American Linguistics},
  year={1935},
  volume={8},
  pages={131 - 171}
}

• T. Michelson
• Published 1 August 1935
• Linguistics
• International Journal of American Linguistics

It has been known for a very long time that the Arapaho group of languages consisted of Arapaho proper, Atsina, and a few other dialects. Specimens of Nanwaeiniahanan and Basanwfunenan have been published by Kroeber in his Arapaho Dialects, UC-PAAE, vol. 12:71-138; I have also heard the latter dialect. If Mooney wrongly identifies Nanwa0inahanan with Nanwuinenan, a designation of the Southern Arapaho, (14th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn. pt. 2, p. 955; article Arapaho, Bull. 30, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 1, p. 73) as Kroeber thinks (loc. cit., p. 74; see also Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H., vol. XVIII, pp. 5, 6, 7), and with which I feel compelled to agree, nevertheless it is only right to state that one of my best Northern Arapaho informants makes the same identification, which identification undoubtedly is made because both words under discussion have reference to the south. Notice that Mooney, 14th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, p. 955, says "The Southern Arapaho .... In addition to their every day dialect, they are said to have an archaic dialect, some words of which approximate closely to Cheyenne," which important statement is ignored by Kroeber; I may add that Mooney in the article Arapaho referred to above, ignores Kroeber's strictures in Bull. Amer. Mu. N. H., vol. XVIII, pp. 5, 6, 7. Kroeber himself says (loc. cit., pp. 6, 7) "The Nanwaginaha'ainan is considerably different from Arapaho. It alone, of all the dialects, has the