Tlingit

[ tling-git ]

noun,plural Tlin·gits, (especially collectively) Tlin·git.
  1. a member of any of a number of Indigenous peoples of the coastal regions of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia.

  2. the language of the Tlingit, a Na-Dene language.

Origin of Tlingit

1
First recorded in 1865–70; from Tlingit tłingít “human being, person, Tlingit”

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Tlingit

/ (ˈtlɪŋɡɪt) /


noun
  1. plural -gits or -git a member of a seafaring group of North American Indian peoples inhabiting S Alaska and N British Columbia

  2. the language of these peoples, belonging to the Na-Dene phylum

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