Athabascan
at·ha·bas·can
noun
1.
a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
Origin
From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
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