Yana

Yana was a language isolate once spoken in United States.

Yana · 39.3°N 121.6°W

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

The Yana language (also Yanan) is an extinct language that was formerly spoken by the Yana people, who lived in north-central California between the Feather and Pit rivers in what is now the Shasta and Tehama counties. The last speaker of the southernmost dialect, which is called Yahi, was Ishi, who died in 1916. When the last fluent speaker(s) of the other dialects died is not recorded. Yana is fairly well documented, mostly by Edward Sapir.

The names Yana and Yahi are derived from ya "people" plus an obligatory suffix, -na in the northern two dialects and -hi or -xi in the southern two dialects.

From Wikipedia · Yana language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Yana

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	bin*
name	ojaiyau*
eye	cu*
ear	mal7gu*
nose	lilimau*
tooth	kicau*
tongue	bawala*
hand	dal*
blood	wad7duwi*
bone	ixdal7*
skin	miwi*
knee	hiwagin*
breast	ciki*
liver	ima*
water	xana
fire	au*
sun	tui*
star	i7lala*
stone	kai*
mountain	jigal*
tree	ina*
leaf	tapal*
night	basiyau*
dog	susu*
fish	gala*
louse	ji*
one	bai*
two	ux*
I	nija*
you	ma*