MOSAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mosan mean? 

• MOSAN (noun)
  The noun MOSAN has 1 sense:

1. a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia

  Familiarity information: MOSAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOSAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Mosan" is a kind of...):

American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)

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

Chemakuan (a group of Mosan languages spoken in Washington)

Salish; Salishan (a family of Mosan language spoken in northwestern United States and western Canada)

Wakashan; Wakashan language (a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington)