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.
Navajo, one of the world's most famous unbreakable codes in World War II, belongs to the Athapascan family—the language's complex verb system made it nearly impossible for Japanese code-breakers to decrypt military messages!
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