query: instance_of arapahoan languages
supports: Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Ojibway), also known as Chippewa or Otchipwe, is an Indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. Ojibwe is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system that covers all dialects. The relative autonomy of the regional dialects of Ojibwe is associated with an absence of linguistic or political unity among Ojibwe-speaking groups. The Wolastoqiyik, or Maliseet (also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.  The Iroquoian languages are a First Nation and Native American language family in North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking. The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Today, thousands of individuals identify with various Algonquian peoples. Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the St. Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. The Arapahoan languages are a subgroup of the Plains group of Algonquian languages : Nawathinehena , Arapaho , Gros Ventre Nawathinehena is extinct and Arapaho and Gros Ventre are both endangered . Besawunena , only attested from a wordlist 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 . Another reported Arapahoan variety is extinct Ha'anahawunena , but there is no documentation of it . The Algonquian languages (or ;
  also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the indigenous Ojibwe language (Chippewa), which is a senior member of the Algonquian language family. The term "Algonquin" has been suggested to derive from the Maliseet word "elakómkwik" (pronounced ), "they are our relatives/allies". A number of Algonquian languages, like many of the Iroquoian languages of the hereditary enemies of the Algonquian peoples, have already become extinct.
candidates: coast extinct family language language family nation number river single system term
answer: language family