Athabascan Definition & Meaning

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

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