Yamnaya /ˈjæmnaɪə/adjective 1noun 1 adjective1 •Of or relating to the Yamnaya people or culture.At the frontiers where Yamnaya pastoralists interacted with settled agriculturalists, local variants developed among bilingual populations. — 2025 noun[plural only]1 •The people of the Yamnaya culture.Archaeologists by 2002 had identified 17 Yamnaya cemeteries in the Samara Valley containing 45 kurgans and 51 graves (Figure 4.2). — 2016
