Definitions for Tlingit

Tlingit Tlin·git

Spelling: [tling-git]
IPA: /ˈtlɪŋ gɪt/

Tlingit is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Tlingit (giilntt).

Definitions for Tlingit

noun

  1. a member of any of a number of American Indian peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Colmbia.
  2. the language of the Tlingit, a Na-Dene language.

Examples for Tlingit

This was the place of honor in all Tlingit houses upon all occasions, ceremonial or otherwise.

I have shown that I do not pretend to know precisely what are the facts of the Tlingit system, as accounts contradict each other.

Once upon a time there lived in Alaska a chief of the Tlingit tribe who had one son.

I nearly despair of arriving at Mr. Swanton's theory of what a Tlingit "clan" really is!

A good example of such a pitch language is Tlingit, spoken by the Indians of the southern coast of Alaska.

Raven came next to Wild Canary, that lives all the year around in the Tlingit country.

To his mind these animal names in Tlingit society denote "crests" not "clans" and with crests we enter a region of confusion.

Mr. Goldenweizer says that, "with few exceptions," the "clans" of the Tlingit bear "names derived from localities."

Mr Goldenweizer does not mention that the "clans" of the Tlingit have animal names.

Consequently Mr. Goldenweizer can make no argumentative use of the alleged local names of the Tlingit clans.

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