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Chippewyan - the language spoken by the Chipewyan

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

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Among the early explorers it was known as the range of Chippewyan Mountains, and this Indian name is the one it is likely to retain in poetic usage.

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This, however, was pointed out as another branch of the Great Chippewyan, or Rocky chain; being the Eutaw Mountains, at whose basis the wandering tribe of hunters of the same name pitch their tents.

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Tyrrell, qui a ete le premier A cartographier le riviere Kazan en 1894, j'en conclus que le terme "Kazan" voulait dire "kasba" ("perdrix blanche" en langue den& et chippewyan).

The naming of Kazan River, Nunavut, Canada

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