tlingit in English
noun
1
a member of an American Indian people of the coasts and islands of southeastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.
The bag was collected in the early twentieth century by Gregory Charles, a teacher in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, where the Tahltans and Tlingits conducted trade with each other and the outside world.
2
the Na-Dene language of the Tlingit.
In the nineteenth century, the first attempts were made to communicate in Tlingit through writing.
adjective
1
relating to the Tlingit or their language.
Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels.
Use "tlingit" in a sentence
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1. The Tlingit culture is multifaceted and complex.
2. Of these migrant groups, the Athabaskans, Aleuts, Inuit, Yupik, Tlingit, and Haida remain in Alaska
3. For the past 16 years Jeff Leer has been working on a comparative dictionary of Tlingit-Eyak-Athabaskan
4. Alaska Natives or Alaskan Natives are indigenous peoples of Alaska, United States and include: Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures