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say it: TLEENG-git
tlingit is a noun meaning "a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska". It is pronounced /ˈtliŋɡɪt/ — TLEENG-git. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
the Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tlingit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.