1. yana - Noun
2. Yana - Proper noun
A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Яна (Jána).
A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
Yana (plural Yanas or Yana)
A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
Yana
The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
yana (plural yanas)
(Buddhism) Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
Darnell 1990:59 Work with Ishi Alfred Kroeber and Ishi In 1915 Sapir returned to California, where his expertise on the Yana language made him urgently needed. Source: Internet
Disappointed at not being able to stay at Berkeley, Sapir devoted his best efforts to other work, and did not get around to preparing any of the Yana material for publication until 1910, Sapir, Edward. 1910. Source: Internet
MEP Yana Toom (Center) told ERR that Estonia rushed its decision to not recognize the results of recent elections in Belarus, giving long-time president Alexander Lukashenko his sixth term. Source: Internet
Sam Batwi, the speaker of Yana who had worked with Sapir, was unable to understand the Yahi variety, and Krober was convinced that only Sapir would be able to communicate with Ishi. Source: Internet
Later he began work with Sam Batwi, who spoke another dialect of Yana, but whose knowledge of Yana mythology was an important fount of knowledge. Source: Internet
Sapir described the way in which the Yana language distinguishes grammatically and lexically between the speech of men and women. Source: Internet