Hokan
A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California,…A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.
US/ˈhoʊkæn/
Meaning
1 sensesA hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.
Origin
From Atsugewi hoqi. While the first proposals by Dixon and Kroeber rested on very limitedFrom Atsugewi hoqi. While the first proposals by Dixon and Kroeber rested on very limited cognate sets comprising only five words, later assessments by Sapir included hundreds of putative cognate sets and analyses of Hokan morphosyntax.
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