Yabu,seeYarriba.
Yacana Cunny.
American: tribe of Araucans.SeeTehuelet.
Yagba,seeYoruba.
Yagua.
American: Indians of Brazil; their dialect is allied toOregones.
Yahgan,seeYakanaku.
Yahoo.
African: a form of the wordDjabu.SeeEyo.
Yahua.
American: same asQuichua.
Yairy-Yairy.
Australian: dialect near Hastings River, N.S. Wales.J. B.
Yak.
A name for the Eskimo people.
Yakama,Yakema.
American: same asJoakema; tribe of Sahaptins. Grammar by Pandosy, 1862.
Yakanaku.
American: Pesherai Indians, natives of Tierra del Fuego. The separate tribes are named (1) Kamentes, (2) Karaikas, (3) Kennekas.
Yakha.
Non-Aryan language of India, belonging to the Kiranti group, E. Nipal. Vocaby. in Hunter’s “Comp. Dicty.”
Yakhain.
Indo-Chinese: native name for theRukkengof Arracan.
Yak-Kumban.
Australian: dialect of Darling district, somewhat allied toBoraiper, spoken from the N.W. bend of the Murray northwards to Laidley’s Ponds, and S.W. to Mount Bryant. Eyre’s “Journals,” London, 1845.J. B.
Yakumba.
Australian: spoken N. of Warialda and in S. Queensland. Vocaby. by Ridley.J. B.
Yakut,Yakout(Jakut).
Alatyan: dialect of the Sokhalar Turks of the Lena, closely allied toYeneseian. Grammar, &c., by Boehtlingk, St. Petersburg, 1851. ☞
Yakutsk.
Alatyan: a dialect ofTungus, closely allied toLamut. Small Vocaby. in Latham’s “Elements,” p. 76.
Yala.
African:Nufidialect of the Gaboon.
Yamea,Yameo.
American: dialect of Ecuador.
Yamkallie.
American: Willamet Indians of Oregon, closely allied toKallapuiah.
Yanesei,seeYeniseian.
Yangaro.
African: dialect of Abyssinia, classed by Dr. Beke asGonga. It has been suggested that it is the same word asZinzero. See Latham’s “Elements,” p. 544.
Yankee.
Anglo-American: a corruption by native Indians of “les Anglais,” as used by French settlers of the English. See Bartlett’s “Dicty. of Americanisms.”
Yankitlan.
American:MistecoIndians of Oajaca in Mexico.
Yankton,Yanktoanon,Yanktonan.
American:Siouxdialect allied toWinnebago. Vocaby. in “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii.
Yaoi.
American:CaribIndians of Trinidad and Venezuela.
Yap(Eap).
Polynesian: dialect of the Carolines, somewhat allied toUlea.
Yaqui,seeHiaqui.
Yarkundi.
Alatyan:Turkishdialect of Yarkund, Central Asia.
Yarra-Bandini.
Australian: dialect of McLeay River (C. Hodgkinson).J. B.
Yarra-Yarra.
Australian: dialect of river so named; spoken for fifty miles from its mouth. The comparative formed by adding “un”; the superlative by “unun.”J. B.
Yarriba,seeYoruba.
Yarura.
American:JapurinIndians of New Granada.
Yatshving(Jaczwing,Jatwag).
Wendic: an extinct language of theLithuanicclass.
Yebu.
African: dialect of theYorubaclass, closely allied toEyo. Sometimes used as a class-name.
Yeconoacampas.
American:VilelaIndians of Cordova.
Yeka,Yreka.
American: theShasta-ButteIndians, called Ho-te-day.SeeShasti.
Yelabuga.
Ugrian: a local dialect ofVotiak, largely infused withTurkish.
Yemen.
Semitic: local dialect of S. W. Arabia; also spoken at Cairo.
Yemut.
Tatartribe of Central Asia.
Yengen.
Negrito: dialect ofPapuan, somewhat allied toIndeniorNitendi.
Yeniseian.
Alatyan: a dialect ofTungus, closely allied toYakut. Klaproth’s name for what has been known as theOstiakof the R. Yenisei.
Yeppok.
American: tribes of Patagonian Indians.
Yerukali.
Non-Aryan language of India, classed asKhond, and closely allied to the dialect of Gaddapur.
Yeso,Yesso.
Kurilian:Ainodialect of the Japanese group.
Yete.
American:OmaguaIndians of New Granada.
Yezidi(Jezidi).
Kurdish: dialect of the so-called “devil-worshippers,” from theAryanword “deva,” “to shine.”
⁂ Their real name isShaitani.W. S. W. V.
Yloko,seeIlocana.
Yo.
Arracanese: same asRo.
Yomud,Yomut.
Turkomantribes of Central Asia.
York (Cape).
Australian: local dialect, closely allied toMassied.
Yorkshire.
Local dialects of England. The chief varieties are classified asCraven,Halifax(Hallamshire),Morley,Sheffield, E. Riding, W. Riding.
Yoruba(Yarriba,Yebu).
African.It touches the Atlantic near the mouth of the R. Formosa, and on the frontier of Dahomey. It extends far inland, bounded chiefly by the Haussa on the north and the Nufi on the south. The following vocabularies are Yoruba, Dsekiri, Dsubu, Dsumu, Egbe, Eki, Idsesa, Ife, Ondo, Oto, Oworo, Yagba; Grammar by Bowen, Washington. 1858.R. G. L.
Ypapana.
American:TotonacaIndians of Puebla and Vera Cruz.
Yreka,seeYeka.
Yucatecan,seeMaya.
Yucuatl.
American: native name of theNootkaorWakashIndians of Vancouver Island.SeeTlaoquatsh.
Yugia-Karta.
Malayan: dialect ofJavanese(Balbi).
Yukahiri(Jukadschiri).
Alatyan: language of certain tribes, now nearly extinct, on the rivers Omolon and Kolyma, in E. Siberia. The native name isAndondomni. It is allied toYakut.
Yukai.
American: dialect of U. California, spoken on Russian River, and somewhat allied toKulanapoandKhwaklalamayu.
Yula.
African:Kouridialect, closely allied toKasm.
Yule.
American:Cholodialect of New Granada, spoken on the Lower Atrato.R. G. L.
Yuma.
American: Indians of U. California; same asCuchan; class-name for theMohave-Cuchan, comprising Mahaos, Hahwalcoes, Yampaio, and Cocopah.SeePuemaja.
Yunga.
American: dialect of Peru, spoken on the E. slope of the Andes. Hervas calls their languageMochika di Yuncas; Adelung,Yunga-Mochika; Rivero and Tschudi call it a dialect of theQuichua. Ludewig pronounces the language to be “totally different from the Quichua,” and he quotes an “Arte de la Lengua Yunga, &c.,” Lima, 1644, “unknown to the authors of ‘The Mithridates;’” he is probably right. He does not quote it as his authority.R. G. L.
Yuracares.
American: spoken on the E. slope of the Andes, about 13° S.L. The Tucana, Maropa, and Apolista are stated to speak either dialects of theYuracaraor allied languages.R. G. L.
Yurak(Juratz).
Ugrian: classed as a sub-dialect ofN. Samoied. (Klaproth.)
Yuriba(Juriba).
African: a form ofYoruba.
Yurimagua.
American: Indians of the Upper Amazons, on the frontier of Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.