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Kutchin

noun
Ku·​tchin | \ küˈchin\
plural Kutchin or Kutchins

Definition of Kutchin

1a : an Athapaskan people of the Yukon and Mackenzie river valleys, Alaska and northwestern Canada
b : a member of such people
2 : a language of the Kutchin people

— called also Loucheux

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