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Athabaskan languagesor Athapaskan languagesFamily of North American Indian languages. There are perhaps 200,000 speakers of Athabaskan languages. Northern Athabaskan includes more than 20 languages scattered across an immense region of subarctic North America from western Alaska to Hudson Bay and south to southern Alberta and British Columbia. Pacific Coast Athabaskan consisted of six languages, all now extinct or nearing extinction. Apachean consists of several closely related languages spoken in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, including Navajo and the various subdivisions of Apache. In the early 21st century, Navajo had some 150,000 speakers, far more than any other indigenous language of the U.S. or Canada. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The biggest challenge in calling the games is that the language the Navajos speak, Athapaskan, is highly descriptive so it takes longer to convey the action than it does in English. in history from the University of Manitoba where her 1981 doctoral thesis, "The Missions of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate to the Athapaskans, 1846-1870," became a standard reference. Goulet, "The Northern Athapaskan 'Berdache' Reconsidered: On Reading More Than There is in the Ethnographic Record," in Jacobs et al, Two-Spirit People, 50-52. |
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