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Athabascan

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1. Athabascan - Noun

2. Athabascan - Adjective

3. Athabascan - Proper noun

Meaning

a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)

a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

Source: WordNet

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Dr. Allison Kelliher is a medical doctor who says she likes to draw from the best of two worlds – Western medicine and her Interior Athabascan heritage. Source: Internet

Other Athabascan languages, namely those in western Alaska (such as Koyukon ) and the Pacific coast (such as Hupa ), did not develop tone. Source: Internet

With regular travel up these rivers, the Tlingit developed extensive trade networks with Athabascan tribes of the interior, and commonly intermarried with them. Source: Internet

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