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Tlingit

Definition of Tlingit

noun (plural same or Tlingits)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people of the coasts and islands of SE Alaska.
  • 2 [mass noun] the language of the Tlingit, which has about 2,000 surviving speakers.

adjective

  • relating to the Tlingit or their language.

Origin:

the name in Tlingit

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Definition of Tlingit in the US English dictionary

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