athabaskan

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Source: Lived in Alaska for around 20 years, and have been thoroughly exposed to Inuit and Athabaskan culture.

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Alternative spelling of Athabascan. [The family of languages spoken by these peoples.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of Athabascan. [The family of languages spoken by these peoples.]

adjective

Alternative spelling of Athabascan. [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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Core meanings and parts of speech for athabaskan.

noun

Alternative spelling of Athabascan. [The family of languages spoken by these peoples.]

adjective

Example sentences

Source: Lived in Alaska for around 20 years, and have been thoroughly exposed to Inuit and Athabaskan culture.

The Navajo are speakers of a Na-Dené Southern Athabaskan language which they call Diné bizaad (lit.

Navajo may seem relatively easy to pick up if one already speaks an Athabaskan language.

At one point the professor was talking about Athabaskan tribes and what they ate.

I've never really looked closely, but in the Athabaskan area you see two red blobs when you turn on languages.

There was also the Athabaskan / Dené and the Eskimo after that.

Some examples are animate or inanimate like Algonquian languages do or the physical properties of an object, such as its shape, size, or consistency like the Athabaskan languages do.

If this is true, it does not however mean that the other Native American languages are also related to Yeiseian, since the Athabaskan languages are not known to be related to any other languages of the Americas.

So for example, here in Alaska, Athabaskan languages are mostly dead, Yupik and Inupiaq is still around but English is predominant pretty much everywhere except west Alaska and the occasional community.

This is why the US is now a net energy exporter, after getting burnt by the spike in commodity prices in 2005-2009 leading to a massive bipartisan push for fracking, natural gas, solar, Athabaskan oil sands projects w/ Harper's backing, etc.

The Athabaskan languages (Slave, Gwich'in, Navajo = Dene, Apache, Chilcotin, and a host of others) have been shown by linguists to be probably related to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia.

Quote examples

Allegedly, the guy who came up with the term “First Nations” was from a group (Athabaskan?

Likewise the proto-Athabaskan word ɫ-yáxs "snow lies on the ground" in Navaho became sàs "corn lies on the ground".

For example the word dè: which in proto-Athabaskan meant "horn" and "dipper made from animal horn" in Navaho came to mean "gourd" or "dipper made from gourd".

Proper noun examples

In 1936 linguist Edward Sapir showed how the arrival of the Navajo people in the new arid climate among the corn agriculturalists of the Pueblo area was reflected in their language by tracing the changing meanings of words from proto-Athabaskan to Navaho.