Athabascan
Alaskan native language
Athabascan refers to a family of Indigenous languages spoken across a vast area from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the American Southwest, where Navajo and Apache are the best-known members.
The term also describes the peoples who speak these languages.
Also spelled Athabaskan or Athapascan, after Lake Athabasca in northern Canada.
China's largest ethnicity
Southwestern indigenous people
- ApacheSouthwestern indigenous nation
- tonalRelating to pitch
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
classifier · phoneme · dialect · cognates · etymology · bilingualism
America's frozen northwest
- YukonNorthwestern Canadian territory
- DenaliAlaska's towering peak
- FairbanksCentral Alaskan city
- InteriorGovernment land agency
Subarctic · Copper · Kenai · Mackenzie · Northwest · taiga · boreal · tundra
Ceremonial wealth distribution gathering
- moosehideTanned skin of large deer
- beadworkStrung ornament craft
- birchbarkWhite tree outer layer
- snowshoesSurface-spreading winter gear
smokehouse · tanning · drumming · storytelling · elders · clans · subsistence · caribou
Han
China's largest ethnicity
Navajo
Southwestern indigenous people
morphology · classifier · phoneme · dialect · cognates · etymology · bilingualism
Alaska
America's frozen northwest
Interior · Subarctic · Copper · Kenai · Mackenzie · Northwest · taiga · boreal · tundra · circumpolar
potlatch
Ceremonial wealth distribution gathering
snowshoes · smokehouse · tanning · drumming · storytelling · elders · clans · subsistence · caribou · salmon
AthabascanInuit
Arctic indigenous people
Algonquian · Iroquoian · Indo-European · Romance languages · English