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Hokan.

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

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

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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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.