de'kwana

See also: De'kwana

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	de'kwana
Brazilian standard	de'kwana
New Tribes	de'cwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deʔkʷana]

Noun

de'kwana

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of ye'kwana (“a Ye'kwana, a Maquiritari, a speaker of Ye'kwana or member of a Ye'kwana-speaking tribe”)
2. specifically, such a person who speaks a dialect with a separate phoneme /d/ or /ð/ where other dialects have /j/