Na-dene
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 a family of North American Indian languages wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A major language family consisting of Tlingit, Eyak and the Athabascan languages, spoken in large parts of North America.
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Coined by Edward Sapir in 1915, from Tlingit naa and Athabaskan dene, both meaning people or tribe.