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According to Lucas Bridges, one of the few Europeans to speak Yaghan, the Yaghans ' name for themselves was Yamana ( meaning people ).

The name Yaghan ( originally spelled Yahgan ), was first used by Lucas's father Thomas Bridges as a shortened form of Yahgashagalumoala ( meaning people from mountain valley channel ), the name of the inhabitants of the Murray Channel ( Yahgashaga ), from whom Thomas Bridges first learned the language.

The name Tekenika (), first applied to a sound in Hoste Island, simply means I do not understand, and evidently originated as the answer to a misunderstood question.