Wiktionary talk:About Yuma
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Chuck Entz in topic RFM discussion: June–July 2015
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Quechan (yum)
I propose to change the canonical name to "Yuma", as that term seems to be more common, and accords with the family name (Yuman) and also is less likely to be mistaken for Quechuan / Quechua. - -sche (discuss) 06:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Renamed. - -sche (discuss) 19:25, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- I actually spent a little time on the reservation many years ago, and the pronunciation I heard was more like "Quatsan", but there's dialectal variation. Yuma is an exonym (O'odham, I believe), but it seems to be the most common name for the language among outsiders. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:48, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- I wouldn't mind renaming it to the actual autonym, "Kwtsaan". I'd just like to avoid the confusion with "Quechuan". - -sche (discuss) 06:49, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- I actually spent a little time on the reservation many years ago, and the pronunciation I heard was more like "Quatsan", but there's dialectal variation. Yuma is an exonym (O'odham, I believe), but it seems to be the most common name for the language among outsiders. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:48, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support Yuma as the most common name in English. There's nothing wrong with exonyms; German, Dutch, and Japanese are all exonyms too, and I would not support renaming those languages Deutsch, Nederlands (or even Netherlandish), and Nihongo (or even Nipponese) either. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 07:19, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed. As for "kwatsaan", the only spelling I saw was Quechan. If I remember correctly, some dialects have ch instead of ts, so it's also authentically an autonym. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to hear the language itself spoken. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:32, 4 July 2015 (UTC)