dhe'kwana

See also: Dhe'kwana

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dhe'kwana
Brazilian standard	dhe'kwana
New Tribes	dhe'cwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ðeʔkʷana]

Noun

dhe'kwana

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of ye'kwana (“a Ye'kwana, a Maquiritari, a speaker of Ye'kwana or member of a Ye'kwana-speaking tribe”)
2. specifically, such a person who speaks a dialect with a separate phoneme /ð/ where other dialects have /j/