Hokan
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- /ˈhoʊkæn/
Proper noun
editHokan
- (linguistics) A hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.