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Yanomami

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Ya·no·ma·mi  (yän-mäm) or Ya·no·ma·mo (-m)
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.


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