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Definition: Athapascan

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. 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.[Wordnet]
2. A group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).[Wordnet].

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Date "Athapascan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Definition: Athapascan

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. 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.[Wordnet]
2. A group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Athapascan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)