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单词 Tlingit
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Definition of Tlingit in English:

Tlingit

nounPlural Tlingits ˈklɪŋkɪtˈklɪŋɡɪtˈtliNG(ɡ)it
  • 1A member of a North American people of the coasts and islands of south-eastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Tlingit society today, even though many Tlingits marry other Tlingits, there exists a great deal of interracial marriage, which has changed some of the dynamics of family and clan relationships.
    • Such helmets were used in inter-tribal wars and during the first military encounters between the Tlingits and the Russians at the turn of the nineteenth century.
    • The man never stopped talking, and he talked with everyone he met - white farmers, black freedmen, women of all ages, hordes of children, ministers of the gospel, a canoe full of Tlingits paddling along the Alaska coast.
    • The Tlingit of Alaska know this, and they are tenaciously preserving the remnants of a culture uncomfortably close to extinction.
    • 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.
  • 2mass noun The language of the Tlingit, which has about 2,000 surviving speakers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The other clan held what amounts to an oral copyright, requiring that the story only be told, word-for-word, by an approved clan member who has committed it to memory, in Tlingit.
    • Gregor muttered something in Tlingit and Dmitri abruptly released him.
    • In the nineteenth century, the first attempts were made to communicate in Tlingit through writing.
adjective ˈklɪŋkɪtˈklɪŋɡɪtˈtliNG(ɡ)it
  • Relating to the Tlingit or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This book celebrates Tlingit traditions and demonstrates their unique facets.
    • Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels.
    • An anthropologist of Tsimshian and Tlingit descent, his principles are derived from his experience with the Gitkxaala Nation in British Columbia.
    • These First Nations are of Tagish, Tlingit, and Southern Tutchone cultural backgrounds.
    • The name Chilkat refers to a Tlingit tribe known for this style of weaving.

Origin

The name in Tlingit.

 
 

Definition of Tlingit in US English:

Tlingit

nounˈtliNG(ɡ)it
  • 1A member of a North American people of the coasts and islands of southeastern Alaska and adjacent British Columbia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The man never stopped talking, and he talked with everyone he met - white farmers, black freedmen, women of all ages, hordes of children, ministers of the gospel, a canoe full of Tlingits paddling along the Alaska coast.
    • In Tlingit society today, even though many Tlingits marry other Tlingits, there exists a great deal of interracial marriage, which has changed some of the dynamics of family and clan relationships.
    • Such helmets were used in inter-tribal wars and during the first military encounters between the Tlingits and the Russians at the turn of the nineteenth century.
    • 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.
    • The Tlingit of Alaska know this, and they are tenaciously preserving the remnants of a culture uncomfortably close to extinction.
  • 2The Na-Dene language of the Tlingit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gregor muttered something in Tlingit and Dmitri abruptly released him.
    • In the nineteenth century, the first attempts were made to communicate in Tlingit through writing.
    • The other clan held what amounts to an oral copyright, requiring that the story only be told, word-for-word, by an approved clan member who has committed it to memory, in Tlingit.
adjectiveˈtliNG(ɡ)it
  • Relating to the Tlingit or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The name Chilkat refers to a Tlingit tribe known for this style of weaving.
    • An anthropologist of Tsimshian and Tlingit descent, his principles are derived from his experience with the Gitkxaala Nation in British Columbia.
    • This book celebrates Tlingit traditions and demonstrates their unique facets.
    • These First Nations are of Tagish, Tlingit, and Southern Tutchone cultural backgrounds.
    • Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels.

Origin

The name in Tlingit.

 
 
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