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☆ Na·-Dene (nä′də nā′, -dā-)

noun

a proposed grouping of North American Indian language families, including the Athabaskan languages, Tlingit, and Haida

Etymology: < Haida na, to dwell, house & Tlingit na, people + Athabaskan dene, person, people (occurring in various dialect forms): coined (1914) by Edward Sapir while at Ottawa

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