Definitions for Tlingits

Tlingits Tlin·git

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

Tlingits is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in Tlingits (giilnstt).

Definitions for Tlingits

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 Tlingits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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