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Yanan

Yanan

9.9
A group of related languages once spoken by the Yana people in northern California
  • noun
: yanan

Examples

  • At the time of the retreat from Yanan, assisting in land reform, we asked the Central Committee in its telegraph to local branches to request that they pay attention to women’s work and collect material on women.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The language Yanan is part of the Hokan family, which includes several indigenous languages from the region.

  • Linguists are studying Yanan to preserve the cultural heritage of the Yana tribe.

  • Yanan is a language group that was once spoken by the Yana people in northern California.

Surface Forms

Yanan singular
Yanans plural

Etymology

Yanan comes from the name of the indigenous Yana people of northern California and basically means 'of the Yana'. People who study languages use Yanan to name the group of languages once spoken by those people.