other linguists.

Etymology

Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family of Athabaskan, Tlingit, and Haida (the existence of the Eyak language was not known to him at the time). In his "The Na-Dene languages: A preliminary report", he describes how he arrived at the term:

Family division

In its uncontroversial core, Na-Dene consists of two branches, Tlingit and Athabaskan-Eyak:

* Na-Dene

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