Yanomami


Ya·no·ma·mi

Y0006265 (yä′nə-mä′mē) or Ya·no·ma·mo (-mō′)n. pl. Yanomami or Ya·no·ma·mis or Yanomamo or Ya·no·ma·mos 1. A member of a South American Indian people living in widely scattered villages along the Brazil-Venezuela border.2. The language of the Yanomami.
[Yanomami yąnomamö, human being.]

Ya•no•ma•mi

(ˌyɑ nəˈmɑ mi)
n., pl. -mis, (esp. collectively) -mi for 1. 1. a member of any of a group of American Indian peoples of S Venezuela and adjacent parts of Brazil. 2. the family of four languages spoken by these peoples.