Athapaskan
n 1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking
an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic
regions of western Canada and central Alaska [syn: Athapascan,
Athabaskan, Athabascan]
2: a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an
American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) [syn: Athapascan,
Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language]