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Na-dene

Na-dene \Na-dene\ prop. n. A family of North American Indian languages including Tlingit, the Athabascan language family, and Haida.

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na-dene

n. A major language family consisting of Tlingit, Eyak and the Athabascan languages, spoken in large parts of North America.

na-dené

n. (alternative spelling of Na-Dene English)

Usage examples of "na-dene".

He laughed and said he knew how to play bego-bego as well as any Na-dene gal as he grabbed her by one big soft cantaloupe and they both flopped back across the bedding.

They cured sick Na-dene at least as often BIA surgeons did, and it sounded as if the old gal was resigned to becoming a chindi in the mighty near future.

The Pima and Papago bands of the Sonora Desert were the only nations both the Na-dene, or Apache, and ferocious Yaqui, or Unreconstructed Aztec, had long since learned to leave the hell alone.