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Na-Dene|ˈnɑːdəˈneɪ|
Also Na-Déné, Nadene.
[f. Athapascan na cogn. with Haida na to dwell, Tlingit na people + Northern Athapascan Dene people.]
The name given to a North American Indian linguistic family consisting of the Athapascan, Eyak, Haida, and Tlingit languages. Cf. Athapascan, Haida.
1915E. Sapir in American Anthropologist XVII. 534 (title) The Na-Dene languages, a preliminary report. Ibid. 535 In all Na-dene languages..a large number of stems is found consisting of consonant plus vowel plus consonant. 1932W. L. Graff Language & Languages xi. 431 The most important North American branches: Eskimo,..Na-Dene. 1932D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Philologists..have discovered no kinship among any of the eleven Canadian tongues, unless perhaps between Haida, Tlinkit, and Athapaskan, which Sapir would group together under the name of Nadene. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 143 Na-Dene, according to Rivet, a family of North American Indian languages, consisting of the Athapascan, Haida and Tlingit. 1957Encycl. Brit. V. 138/1 The Nadene languages, probably the most specialized of all, are tone languages, and, while presenting a superficially ‘polysynthetic’ aspect, are built up, fundamentally, of monosyllabic elements of prevailingly nominal significance. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 96 This would be exemplified, hypothetically, by a discovery that Haida does not belong with the other Na-Dene languages. Ibid. 97 Na-Dene..also remains essentially as organized by Sapir. 1968H.-J. Pinnow in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XXXIV. 204 (title) Genetic relationship vs. borrowing in Na-Dene. 1970C. Laird Language in America (1972) iv. 53 Speakers of Na-Dene..are today found in the lush Pacific Northwest. Ibid., One of the Na-Dene languages. |