hokan in English
adjective
1
relating to or denoting a group of American Indian languages of California and western Mexico, considered as a possible language family and including Yuman, Mojave, and several other languages now extinct or nearly so.
Tlapanec is the most recent addition, having been tentatively linked with Hokan languages earlier.
noun
1
the hypothetical Hokan language family.
Although some Hokan families may indeed be related, especially in northern California, few linguists today expect Hokan as a whole to prove to be valid, and the term is often used as a convenient label to simplify one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the world.
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1. Chumash, any of several related North American Indian groups speaking a Hokan language
2. Chumash or Chu·mash·es A member of any of a group of Hokan-speaking Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the southern California coastal
3. Southwest basketry incorporates many construction styles, but can be loosely grouped into four divisions, that of the Apache and Navajo (the southern Athabascans,) the Hokan peoples, the Puebloans, and the Uto-Aztecans