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Athapascan

Definition: Athapascan

Athapascan

Noun

1. A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska.

2. A group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Athapascan

Synonyms: Athabascan (n), Athabaskan (n), Athapaskan (n), Athapaskan language (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Athapascan

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Athapascan Indian mother and children. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Anagrams: Athapascan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-h-n-p-s-t"

-3 letters: canasta, capstan, captans, catnaps, patacas.

-4 letters: ashcan, captan, catnap, chants, nachas, pachas, pataca, sancta, snatch, stanch.

-5 letters: antas, asana, ataps, canst, cants, caphs, chant, chaps, chapt, chats, hansa, hants, natch, pacas, pacha, pacts, pants, pasha, pasta, patch, paths, scant, snath, staph, tachs, tapas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Athapascan


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 74 68 61 70 61 73 63 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -    ....    .-    .--.    .-    ...    -.-.    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100001 01110011 01100011 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#116 &#104 &#97 &#112 &#97 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0074 0068 0061 0070 0061 0073 0063 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35867467826785696780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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