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n. - A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California;

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  • Also, a comment on Hokan, which is a group that I have studied.
  • While trying to figure out if Muskogean (the language family to which Choctaw and Chickasaw, among others, belong) is considered to be part of any larger grouping (apparently...
  • Even core Hokan is considered unproven, and very likely not a family.
  • Hokan is to a large extent a relic of a period of unfettered speculation.
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