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Athabaskan languages

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Family 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.
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95 Hardcover E78 For his study of the interaction between the early Spanish conquerors and the Athapaskan and Puebloan Indians of the Southwest, Carter (history, South Texas College, McAllen) begins with the first settlements of the Athapaskans shortly after the end of the last ice age.
Indian alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750-1750 by Reference & Research Book News
Dehaired sealskin was frequently used by the Inuit, Aleut, and Northern Athapaskan peoples of Alaska, as well as by the Yupik of neighboring Siberia.
From the North American Subarctic by Green, Richard / Whispering Wind
The Athapaskan Tribes are the Chilcotin, Carrier, Sekani, Tahitan, Beaver, Kaska, and Slave.
Indian Tribes Of The Northwest by Internet Bookwatch
 
 
 
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