Hokan III: Velar obstruents and glottal stop

Mikhail Zhivlov (Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies (RSUH), Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow); zhivlov@gmail.com)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 23/3-4, 2025 - p.344-374

Abstract: The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman's (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan.

Keywords: comparative method, Hokan languages, Native American languages, historical phonology

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