athapaskan

Noun athapaskan has 2 senses

• athapaskan(n = noun.person) athabascan, athabaskan, athapascan - 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;
is a kind of american indian, indian, red indian
has particulars: apache, chipewyan, hupa, mattole, navaho, navajo

• athapaskan(n = noun.communication) athabascan, athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskan language - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir);
is a kind of american-indian language, american indian, amerind, amerindian language, indian
has particulars: apache, navaho, navajo, hupa, mattole, chipewyan, chippewaian, chippewyan