YANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yana mean? 

• YANA (noun)
  The noun YANA has 2 senses:

1. a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California

2. the Yanan language spoken by the Yana

  Familiarity information: YANA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Yana" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Yanan language spoken by the Yana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Yana" is a kind of...):

Yanan (a language group of the Hokan family)

 Context examples 

The site, known as Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site (RHS), was found in 2001 and features more than 2,500 artefacts of animal bones and ivory along with stone tools and evidence of human habitation.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

The DNA was recovered from the only human remains discovered from the era – two tiny milk teeth – that were found in a large archaeological site found in Russia near the Yana River.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)