Y.
Yabu, see [Yarriba].
Yacana Cunny.
American: tribe of Araucans. See [Tehuelet].
Yagba, see [Yoruba].
Yagua.
American: Indians of Brazil; their dialect is allied to Oregones.
Yahgan, see [Yakanaku].
Yahoo.
African: a form of the word Djabu. See [Eyo].
Yahua.
American: same as Quichua.
Yairy-Yairy.
Australian: dialect near Hastings River, N.S. Wales. J. B.
Yak.
A name for the Eskimo people.
Yakama, Yakema.
American: same as Joakema; 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 the Rukkeng of Arracan.
Yak-Kumban.
Australian: dialect of Darling district, somewhat allied to Boraiper, 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 to Yeneseian. Grammar, &c., by Boehtlingk, St. Petersburg, 1851. ☞
Yakutsk.
Alatyan: a dialect of Tungus, closely allied to Lamut. Small Vocaby. in Latham’s “Elements,” p. 76.
Yala.
African: Nufi dialect of the Gaboon.
Yamea, Yameo.
American: dialect of Ecuador.
Yamkallie.
American: Willamet Indians of Oregon, closely allied to Kallapuiah.
Yanesei, see [Yeniseian].
Yangaro.
African: dialect of Abyssinia, classed by Dr. Beke as Gonga. It has been suggested that it is the same word as Zinzero. 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: Misteco Indians of Oajaca in Mexico.
Yankton, Yanktoanon, Yanktonan.
American: Sioux dialect allied to Winnebago. Vocaby. in “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii.
Yaoi.
American: Carib Indians of Trinidad and Venezuela.
Yap (Eap).
Polynesian: dialect of the Carolines, somewhat allied to Ulea.
Yaqui, see [Hiaqui].
Yarkundi.
Alatyan: Turkish dialect 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, see [Yoruba].
Yarura.
American: Japurin Indians of New Granada.
Yatshving (Jaczwing, Jatwag).
Wendic: an extinct language of the Lithuanic class.
Yebu.
African: dialect of the Yoruba class, closely allied to Eyo. Sometimes used as a class-name.
Yeconoacampas.
American: Vilela Indians of Cordova.
Yeka, Yreka.
American: the Shasta-Butte Indians, called Ho-te-day. See [Shasti].
Yelabuga.
Ugrian: a local dialect of Votiak, largely infused with Turkish.
Yemen.
Semitic: local dialect of S. W. Arabia; also spoken at Cairo.
Yemut.
Tatar tribe of Central Asia.
Yengen.
Negrito: dialect of Papuan, somewhat allied to Indeni or Nitendi.
Yeniseian.
Alatyan: a dialect of Tungus, closely allied to Yakut. Klaproth’s name for what has been known as the Ostiak of the R. Yenisei.
Yeppok.
American: tribes of Patagonian Indians.
Yerukali.
Non-Aryan language of India, classed as Khond, and closely allied to the dialect of Gaddapur.
Yeso, Yesso.
Kurilian: Aino dialect of the Japanese group.
Yete.
American: Omagua Indians of New Granada.
Yezidi (Jezidi).
Kurdish: dialect of the so-called “devil-worshippers,” from the Aryan word “deva,” “to shine.”
⁂ Their real name is Shaitani. W. S. W. V.
Yloko, see [Ilocana].
Yo.
Arracanese: same as Ro.
Yomud, Yomut.
Turkoman tribes of Central Asia.
York (Cape).
Australian: local dialect, closely allied to Massied.
Yorkshire.
Local dialects of England. The chief varieties are classified as Craven, 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: Totonaca Indians of Puebla and Vera Cruz.
Yreka, see [Yeka].
Yucatecan, see [Maya].
Yucuatl.
American: native name of the Nootka or Wakash Indians of Vancouver Island. See [Tlaoquatsh].
Yugia-Karta.
Malayan: dialect of Javanese (Balbi).
Yukahiri (Jukadschiri).
Alatyan: language of certain tribes, now nearly extinct, on the rivers Omolon and Kolyma, in E. Siberia. The native name is Andondomni. It is allied to Yakut.
Yukai.
American: dialect of U. California, spoken on Russian River, and somewhat allied to Kulanapo and Khwaklalamayu.
Yula.
African: Kouri dialect, closely allied to Kasm.
Yule.
American: Cholo dialect of New Granada, spoken on the Lower Atrato. R. G. L.
Yuma.
American: Indians of U. California; same as Cuchan; class-name for the Mohave-Cuchan, comprising Mahaos, Hahwalcoes, Yampaio, and Cocopah. See [Puemaja].
Yunga.
American: dialect of Peru, spoken on the E. slope of the Andes. Hervas calls their language Mochika di Yuncas; Adelung, Yunga-Mochika; Rivero and Tschudi call it a dialect of the Quichua. 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 the Yuracara or allied languages. R. G. L.
Yurak (Juratz).
Ugrian: classed as a sub-dialect of N. Samoied. (Klaproth.)
Yuriba (Juriba).
African: a form of Yoruba.
Yurimagua.
American: Indians of the Upper Amazons, on the frontier of Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.