- denoting or belonging to a postulated phylum of North American Indian languages including the Athabaskan family, Tlingit, and (in some classifications) Haida（属于）纳迪尼语族的。
词源
early 20th cent.: from Tlingit naa 'tribe' （related to Haida náa 'dwell'） + North Athabaskan dene 'tribe'.