- of, relating to, or denoting a small family of almost extinct American Indian languages of the northern Pacific coast, including Kwakiutl and Nootka（与）瓦卡希语组（有关）的（瓦卡希语组是太平洋北岸几乎绝迹的几种美洲印第安人语言, 包括夸扣特尔语和努特卡语）。
词源
from Nootka waukash 'good' (said to have been applied to the people by Captain Cook)+-AN.