CHIPPEWAIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chippewaian mean? 

• CHIPPEWAIAN (noun)
  The noun CHIPPEWAIAN has 1 sense:

1. the language spoken by the Chipewyan

  Familiarity information: CHIPPEWAIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIPPEWAIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The language spoken by the Chipewyan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Chipewyan; Chippewaian; Chippewyan

Hypernyms ("Chippewaian" is a kind of...):

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))