AKWA'ALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Akwa'ala mean? 

• AKWA'ALA (noun)
  The noun AKWA'ALA has 3 senses:

1. a member of the Akwa'ala community in Baja California

2. a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California

3. the Yuman language spoken by the Akwa'ala

  Familiarity information: AKWA'ALA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AKWA'ALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Akwa'ala community in Baja California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Akwa'ala" is a kind of...):

Hoka; Hokan (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Domain region:

Baja California; Lower California (a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Yuman language spoken by the Akwa'ala

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Akwa'ala" is a kind of...):

Yuman (a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico)