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Native/Fluent Japanese speakers?

I want to know if the word Yanaba sounds like anything in Japanese or if it's just nonsense. Even if it's something obscure or doesn't even make sense. Just curious. . . Thanks!

Update:

The name Yanaba is actually Native American or I think it's been changed to American Indian. Anyway the reason why I ask if it sounds like anything in Japanese is because I've noticed similar names in Native American and Japanese languages.

Ex: Kaede- willow

Kai- willow

Of course it could just be a coincidence but I wanted to be sure.

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  • ꇂꉧ
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    It may look Japanese at the first sight, but in general Japanese is not related to any language spoken in Americas.

    There was some Japanese guy who tried to find relationship between Japanese and Guarani (the language of Paraguay), but it's not an accepted theory.

  • 8 years ago

    I think it's nonsense because I've never heard it .But perhaps there may be some parson whose name is ''Yanaba''(But I've never met).I wanna know when and where you saw that,Yanaba.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    ?????????? ???????????? ?????????????????? Witch is? Witch is? I supply this blossom. ???????? ????????????????? ??????????????? ????????????????????? hi, why did no longer do like this?

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