(亦作 Athapaskan)
- denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of North American Indian languages, including a southern group of which the most important are Navajo and Apache, and a northern group in Alaska and the Canadian North-West, many of which are now rare or extinct阿萨巴斯卡语的（北美印第安语言的一支, 包括南部的纳瓦霍语、阿帕切语, 以及存在于北部阿拉斯加和加拿大西北部的几种语言, 其中许多已消失或濒临消失）。
1
- mass noun this family of languages, sometimes classified in the Na-Dene phylum阿萨巴斯卡语族（有时被划入纳迪尼语群）。
2
- a speaker of any of these languages讲阿萨巴斯卡语的人。
词源
from Athabasca, the name of a lake in western Canada， from Cree Athap-askaw 'grass and reeds here and there'， + -AN.