Hokan

//ˈhoʊkæn// name

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California wordnet
  2. 2
    a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.

Synonyms

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hokahoka

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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