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Koyukon
[ koi-yoo-kon, kah- ]
noun
- a member of a North American Indian people living in the Yukon River valley in west-central Alaska.
- the Athabascan language of the Koyukon.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Koyukon1
Respelling, after the Koyukuk and Yukon Rivers, of earlier Co-Youkon, from Russian kuyukantsy (plural), derivative of Kuyukak “the Koyukuk River,” ultimately derived from Inupiaq kuiyuk
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