Yanan.

1888 6th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1884–5 p. xxxvii Work was begun on the Nosa language (Yanan family) at Redding, Cal.]

1891 J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 135 Yanan Family. Derivation: Yana means ‘people’ in the Yanan language.

1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 18 Yana shows so few similarities to other languages that it cannot be included in any group.

1913 Dixon & Kroeber in Science 7 Feb. 225/2 The new larger [native Indian language] families..are..Hokan, comprising Shasta, Chimariko and Pomo, probably Karok, and possibly Yana.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iii. 46 The differences between the two sets of Yana forms can be stated by means of a fairly complex set of rules.

1956 J. Lotz in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 12/1 In Yana, an Indian language of California, men and women use an entirely different vocabulary.

1971 Language 47 831 Although most shifts move only one degree up the scale, Yana and Luiseño advance two degrees in shifting l > n and r > ð respectively.

1910 E. Sapir Yana Texts 3 These boundaries are somewhat uncertain, it remaining doubtful whether the Yanas reached the Sacramento.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 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.

1962 Guardian 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.

1974 Encycl. 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.