Holikachuk

Proper noun

Meaning

an extinct Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska

an abandoned village in Alaska

Examples

The Holikachuk were in a position to conflate the meanings of the Gwich’in and Yup’ik names, because they traded with people who spoke the two languages. Source: Internet

Although it did serve as the name, Yukkhana does not correspond to a Holikachuk phrase that means big river. Source: Internet

This phrase existed by 1843, because the Holikachuk had borrowed it by then, as documented below. Source: Internet

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