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Athabaskan

Syllabification: (Ath·a·bas·kan)
Pronunciation: /ˌaTHəˈbaskən/

(also Athapaskan /-ˈpas-/)
Definition of Athabaskan

adjective

  • denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of North American Indian languages including especially Navajo and various Apache languages of the southwest US, several languages of coastal California and Oregon, and many languages of Alaska and northwestern Canada, including Chipewyan.

noun

  • 1the Athabaskan family of languages.
  • 2a speaker of any of the Athabaskan languages.

Origin:

from Athabasca, the name of a lake in western Canada, from Cree athapaskaw 'grass and reeds here and there', + -an

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