Also, a comment on Hokan, which is a group that I have studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

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 some people take it for granted it's part of the "Hokan-Siouxan" group while others treat it as independent, Wikipedia calls Hokan itself "a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families spoken in California and Mexico" and says "few linguists today expect Hokan as a whole to prove to be valid," and I'm certainly not qualified to even have a thought about the matter), I ran across an interesting paper (pdf file; unfortunately, there does not appear to be an HTML cache) by Prof.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Even core Hokan is considered unproven, and very likely not a family.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hokan is to a large extent a relic of a period of unfettered speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Some of the "core Hokan" languages probably are related, but others are doubtful.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

This is an interesting case in that there has never been any good evidence for Hokan.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Nobody but the most extreme long-rangers takes Hokan-Siouan or any form of Macro-Hokan seriously anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hokan was cobbled together with tiny bits of evidence, almost all of it nothing but words that vaguely resemble each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Furthermore, some languages proposed as Hokan seem to share more features with languages considered outside of Hokan than with others within Hokan Haas 1964b.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

The antiquity of Hokan would be at least as great as that of Indo-European, if not much greater, but documentation of the languages is considerably more limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Marianne Mithun in The Languages of Native North America which is a fun book, Hat, you should consider getting a copy doesn't mention Hokan-Siouan at all, let alone any relationship between it and Muskogean.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hokan, Macro-Siouan (including Caddoan and Iroquoian) and Gulf (which hypothetically includes Muskogean together with various other Southeastern languages) are listed as "stocks", in the sense of hypothetical related groups above the level of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hypotheses of a Hokan stock as a genetic unit continue to play an important role in prompting investigation of the historical relationships between these languages, but it should be recognized that Hokan is not yet considered a demonstrated genetic entity.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference

Hupa, as we have seen, is Athabaskan and, as such, is also distantly related to Haida (Queen Charlotte Islands) and Tlingit (southern Alaska); Yurok is one of the two isolated Californian languages of the Algonkin stock, the center of gravity of which lies in the region of the Great Lakes; Karok is the northernmost member of the Hokan group, which stretches far to the south beyond the confines of California and has remoter relatives along the Gulf of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10. Language, Race and Culture] Reference

Of Hokan she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS.] Reference