21. When his five sons returned, they could no longer speak any of the Athabascan languages. 22. Tlingits took eulachon oil and returned with furs, hides and copper nuggets gathered by the Athabascans . 23. The name derives from the Lower Tanana ( Athabascan ) words meaning " water-amulet river ". 24. Incidentally, the two different phonemes are also connected to two different reconstructed consonants in Proto-Athabascan . 25. Other Athabascan languages, namely those in western Alaska ( such as Hupa ), did not develop tone. 26. Also, these may have influenced the Plains-Pueblo, Athabascan , and Inuit-Northwest Coast areas. 27. So little is known of the language that beyond the fact that it is Athabascan it cannot be classified. 28. The " ice cream songs " used to be sung during the preparation of Alaskan Athabascan Indian ice cream. 29. Armstrong, an Athabascan basket maker and friend of Reed, had been taught many techniques and skills by Reed. 30. Then there is classification by common origin ( Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language, Navajo, Athabascan ).
