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Yaghan

Yaghan is the alternative form of Yahgan.

Meaning of Yahgan

Proper noun

Yahgan (plural Yahgans or Yahgan)

  1. An indigenous people of the Southern Cone.
    • The Yahgans, according to a census I made in June, are as follows: men, 273; women, 314; children, 358; total, 945.1884, “Indian Languages of South America”, in Science, volume 4, number 80, page 138
  2. A member of that people.
  3. The language of that people.
    • This is an attempt to present the Yahgan dialect of the Fuegian Islands in lexical form[.]1885, “The Yahgans of Tierra Del Fuego”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 14, page 289

Forms of Yaghan

pluralYaghans
pluralYaghan

Phrases with Yaghan

Questions about Yaghan

What is Yaghan the alternative form of?
Yaghan is the alternative form of Yahgan.

Words near Yaghan in the dictionary

  1. yager
  2. yagers
  3. yagger
  4. Yaggera
  5. yaggers
  6. Yaghan
  7. Yaghan dog
  8. Yaghan dogs
  9. Yaghans
  10. Yaghnob
  11. Yaghnobi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yaghan (page history and authors); Yahgan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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