Hokan

English

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.[1]

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhoʊkæn/

Proper noun

Hokan

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

Hyponyms

References

  1. ^ https://oxfordre.com/linguistics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-19?rskey=ImD9qe&result=66#:~:text=The%20name%20Hokan%20stems%20from,the%20Atsugewi%20word%20for%20%E2%80%9Ctwo%E2%80%9D%3A%20hoqi.

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