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Yana|ˈjɑːnə|
[a. Central and Northern Yana (men's speech) ya·na person, people.]
a. The language of the Yana Indians (see below), a member of the Hokan group.
[18886th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. p. xxxvii, Work was begun on the Nosa language (Yanan family) at Redding, Cal.] 1891J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 135 Yanan Family. Derivation: Yana means ‘people’ in the Yanan language. 1903Amer. Anthropologist V. 18 Yana shows so few similarities to other languages that it cannot be included in any group. 1913[see Hokan]. 1933Bloomfield Language iii. 46 The differences between the two sets of Yana forms can be stated by means of a fairly complex set of rules. 1956J. Lotz in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 12/1 In Yana, an Indian language of California, men and women use an entirely different vocabulary. 1971Language XLVII. 831 Although most shifts move only one degree up the scale, Yana and Luiseño advance two degrees in shifting l > n and r > ð respectively.
b. (A member of) an American Indian people formerly living in northern California. Also attrib.
1910Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archeol. & Ethnol. IX. 3 These boundaries are somewhat uncertain, it remaining doubtful whether the Yanas reached the Sacramento. 1933Bloomfield Language iii. 46 The classical instance is that of the Carib Indians; a recently authenticated one is the language of the Yana Indians in northern California. 1962Guardian 23 Feb. 7/3 In 1911..in California..a man..was identified as a survivor of a subtribe of Yana Indians thought to be extinct. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 796/1 The last known Yahi survivor..died in 1916. Other Yana, if they survive, are intermixed with other northern Californian Indians. |