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Athapaskan

noun

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

• Syn: ↑Athapascan, ↑Athabaskan, ↑Athabascan, ↑Athapaskan language

• Regions:

↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A.

• Hypernyms: ↑Amerind, ↑Amerindian language, ↑American-Indian language, ↑American Indian, ↑Indian

• Hyponyms:

↑Apache, ↑Navaho, ↑Navajo, ↑Hupa, ↑Mattole, ↑Chipewyan, ↑Chippewyan, ↑Chippewaian

2. 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

• Syn: ↑Athapascan, ↑Athabaskan, ↑Athabascan

• Hypernyms: ↑Indian, ↑American Indian, ↑Red Indian

• Hyponyms: ↑Apache, ↑Chipewyan, ↑Hupa, ↑Mattole, ↑Navaho, ↑Navajo

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/ath'euh pas"keuhn/, n., adj.

Athabaskan.

Also, Athapascan.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.