wakashan in English
adjective
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relating to a small family of almost extinct American Indian languages of the northern Pacific coast, including Kwakiutl and Nootka.
The Salishan and Wakashan languages are the favorite candidates for languages lacking the noun/verb contrast, but there have been several other proposals.
noun
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the Wakashan family of languages.
The ‘keepers of the language’ should be the language family - Algonquin, Athapaskan, Eskimo-Aleut, Haida, Iroquoian, Hutenai, Salishan, Siouan, Tlingit, Wakashan .
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1. Abnaki or Abenakiboth: ăbnä´kē [ key], Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages)
2. Abnaki or Abenaki (both: ăbnä`kē), Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants