Athapaskan language


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Noun1.Athapaskan language - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan
American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Apache - the language of the Apache
Navaho, Navajo - the Athapaskan language spoken by the Navaho
Hupa - the Athapaskan language spoken by the Hupa
Mattole - the Athapaskan language spoken by the Mattole
Chippewaian, Chippewyan, Chipewyan - the language spoken by the Chipewyan
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
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Speaking a dialect of the Athapaskan language called Slavey-Hare, the people of Colville Lake are sometimes referred to as Delagot'ine, or "end-of-the-earth people." They are related to the K'ashogot'ine of nearby Fort Good Hope and are one of the communities composing the larger regional political entity, the Sahtu Dene.
End-of-Earth People: The Arctic Sahtu Dene
The most fully developed of all Canadian syllabic scripts was created in 1885 by an Oblate missionary, Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859-1938), for the Athapaskan language Dakelh, spoken in northern British Columbia.
Book culture: why there are pages and why they must turn: books are not confined to their material instantiations. They are present in oral as well as written cultures. Indeed, they appear to be, for the human species, a cultural universal

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