Yahgan

plural Yahgans

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