athabaskan in a sentence

1. The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan languages.

2. They were the earliest ancestors of the Athabaskan-speaking peoples, including the Navajo and Apache.

3. Based on an Athabaskan legend passed down from Wallis' mother, the book sold over 1.5 million copies.

4. In 2012 the annual Athabaskan Languages Conference changed its name to the Dene’ Languages Conference.

5. A second hypothesis suggests that the Fremont culture may have been derived from buffalo-hunting societies, probably from a culture of Athabaskan origin.

6. The Zuni had no apparent relatives; the Hopi spoke an Uto-Aztecan language; the Tewas and Tiwas were Tanoanos and the Navajo were Athabaskans.[citation needed]