Definitions for Athabaskan

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Athabaskan Ath·a·bas·kan

Spelling: [ath-uh-bas-kuh n]

IPA: /ˌæθ əˈbæs kən/

Athabaskan is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in Athabaskan (aaaabhknst).

Definitions for Athabaskan

noun

1. a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
2. a member of any of various American Indian peoples speaking Athabaskan.

adjective

1. belonging to or characteristic of the Athabaskans.

Origin of Athabaskan

1770-80; earlier Athapasca(s), introduced as a term for the Canadian Athabaskans (Woods Cree ahδapaska·w Lake Athabaska, literally, there are reeds here and there *aʔlap(y)- net, reticulated

Examples for Athabaskan

The water-system in question forms the centre of the great Athabaskan area—the centre, but not the whole.

Indeed, as has been already stated, the Eskimo and Athabaskan stretch across the Continent.

All the Athabaskan languages or dialects are mutually intelligible.

Some of them were half wolf—creatures that were the result of inter-breeding on the part of Athabaskan Indians.

In the same parts the Athabaskan forms of speech differ most from each other.

Now as these last are Athabaskan, there must have been displacement.

The Athabaskan is the first class in our list; and, if we look only at the area which its population occupies, it is a great one.

Eskimo characteristics appear in the Athabaskan, Athabaskan in the Koluch forms of speech.

The Nehanni and some other populations of less importance are also, to almost a certainty, Athabaskan.

Their dialect is the softest and most copious of the Athabaskan tongues.