Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV yanwaa
Brazilian standard yanwaa
New Tribes yanwaa

Alternative forms

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  • yanwa (Caura River dialect)
  • dhanwa (Cunucunuma River dialect, Yujudunña dialect and Brazil)
  • danwa (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yanwaa (possessed yanwaadü) (Caura River dialect)

  1. male human being, man
  2. male cross-cousin (of a woman)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yanwaa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 92, 109–110, 456
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “dhannwa”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 218, 220–221, 388:
    [danwa] ~ [ðanwa] 'man' [] The /d/ phoneme has a dialect alternant of /y/ heard in words such as: danwa/yanwa 'man'; and: de:/ye: 'tree'. Some words such as danwa/ðanwa (a sub-phonemic intradialect variant for the Cunucunuma; also, the latter represents the cabecereña or headwater dialect) clearly have the dialect alternant yanwa. This produces three dialect alternants [] danwa - man
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “danwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 72, 76:yamwadü