Definitions
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- proper noun An undocumented hypothetical language from which all the
Athabaskan languages later emerged. - adjective Of or pertaining to the Proto-Athabaskan language or the people who spoke it.
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Examples
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Proto-Athabaskan also doesn't appear to have had tonal contrasts.
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Similar tonogenesis happened in Navajo, a language which derives from Proto-Athabaskan.
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