Associations to the word «Hokan»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

HOKAN, noun. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
HOKAN, noun. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope