AMERICAN INDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Indian mean? 

• AMERICAN INDIAN (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN INDIAN has 1 sense:

1. any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN INDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN INDIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian

Hypernyms ("American Indian" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American Indian"):

Maracan language; Maraco (the language spoken by the Maraco)

Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)

Hoka; Hokan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California)

Tanoan; Tanoan language (a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States)

Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)

Maya; Mayan; Mayan language (a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas)

Uto-Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan language (a family of American Indian languages)

Carib; Caribbean language (the family of languages spoken by the Carib)

Arawak; Arawakan (a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America)

Tupi-Guarani; Tupi-Guarani language (a family of South American Indian languages)

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

Kechua; Kechuan; Quechua; Quechuan; Quechuan language (the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas)

Iroquoian; Iroquoian language; Iroquois (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois)

Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo)

Mosan (a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia)

Na-Dene (a family of North American Indian languages)

Muskhogean; Muskhogean language; Muskogean; Muskogean language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States)

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))

Atakapa; Atakapan; Attacapa; Attacapan (a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas)

 Context examples 

It is responsible for providing comprehensive health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives through IHS and tribally contracted hospitals, health centers, school health centers, and health stations.

(Indian Health Service, NCI Thesaurus)

Individuals who rarely burn and tan heavily with moderate sun exposures, especially individuals of Asian, American Indian, Mediterranean and Latin American descent.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type IV, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) relevance to individuals who are Asian/Pacific Islanders or Native Americans, including American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Hawaiian Natives.

(AIDS, Other Minorities, NCI Thesaurus)

From 2007 until 2015, PASS Network researchers followed the outcomes of nearly 12,000 pregnancies among women from two residential areas in Cape Town, South Africa; and five sites in the U.S., including two American Indian Reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)