Yana

[ yah-nuh ]

noun

, plural Ya·nas, (especially collectively) Ya·na

1. a member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
2. the now extinct Hokan language of the Yana, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

Example Sentences

Yana speaks the best Korean in her class - but she and most of her 22 classmates are native Russian speakers.

From BBC

This includes work at Yana Sleep, her e-commerce start-up, but also planning trips and events with her partner.

From New York Times

Melissa Lawley powered down the left and put in a teasing cross but Yana Daniels, well placed in the middle, blazed her shot over the bar under pressure from Arsenal skipper Katie McCabe.

From BBC

One fan at the Kyiv concert, an I.T. engineer who only gave her first name, Yana, said she listened to his music when out walking to forget the stress of the war.

From New York Times

“My kids were very hungry,” Artem’s wife, Yana, said in an interview from the family’s home in Baltimore, where the U.S. government resettled them in 2022.

From New York Times