- Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
--1 is a kind of Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian
--1 has particulars:Apache; Navaho, Navajo; Hupa; Mattole; Chipewyan, Chippewyan, Chippewaian