Relating to a large family of Native American languages spoken across the Arctic, western North America, and the American Southwest, including Navajo and Apache.
Named after the Athabaskan people and their region (from Cree 'athapaskaw' meaning 'meadow'). The spelling 'athapascan' is an anglicized variant of 'Athabaskan,' used inconsistently in historical texts.
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