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Hokan

US/ˈhoʊkæn/

Hokan proper noun: a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.

Proper noun

Hokan

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

Origin of Hokan

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.

Words formed from Hokan

Questions about Hokan

What does Hokan mean?
Hokan means a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California, Arizona, and Mexico.
What part of speech is Hokan?
Hokan is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Hokan?
Hokan is pronounced /ˈhoʊkæn/ (US).

Words near Hokan in the dictionary

  1. Hok-lo
  2. Hok-los
  3. hoka
  4. Hokaglish
  5. Hokah
  6. Hokan
  7. Hokanist
  8. Hokanists
  9. Hokanson
  10. Hokansons
  11. Hokchew

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hokan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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