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hokan has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California

Synonyms

Hoka

Used in print

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

He has announced results on Hokan , Penutian , Uto-Aztecan , and almost all other American families and phyla , and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; but he has not worked_out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other_than Salish .

Related terms

Amerind Kulanapan Yanan Quoratean Shastan Yuman Esselen Chimariko

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[ noun ] a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language

Synonyms

Hoka

Related terms

Indian Atsugewi Diegueno Chimariko Cochimi Kiliwa Mohave Esselen Halchidhoma Havasupai Kamia Karok Maricopa Cocopa Akwa'ala Pomo Shasta Walapai Yahi Yana Yavapai Yuma Achomawi

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Similar Spelling

hogan Hoskin Hokama Hoggan hosanna hook_on Howson Hougen Hosein

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