SINCE 1828
Na-Dene
noun
\ nä-ˈdā-(ˌ)nā
, -ˈde-, -nē\
, -ˈde-, -nē\
Definition of Na-Dene
: a hypothetically related group of American Indian languages that includes the Athabascan family, Tlingit, and Haida
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