athabascan
IPA: eɪθˈæbʌskʌn
Root Word: Athabascan
noun
- The family of languages spoken by these peoples.
- Any member of these peoples.
adjective
- Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest.
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Examples of "athabascan" in Sentences
- Most of the people in Circle today are Athabascan.
- Each Tlingit chief had an exclusive Athabascan trading partner.
- McQuesten was one of the first white men to marry a native Athabascan woman.