English Explanatory Dictionary

Hokan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.

Pronunciation

/ˈhoʊkæn/

Word forms

Hokan

Etymology

From 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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