Cocopah sounds

Consonants
Cocopah has 21 consonants:


 * is usually a trill but sometimes is a flap.
 * are postalveolar (palato-alveolar).  are palatalized alveolar consonants.
 * is usually palatalized, but unlike it does not contrast with a non-palatalized.

Vowels
Cocopah has 4 vowels.

Cocopah has both short and long vowels.

Syllable & phonotactics
The Cocopah syllable:




 * Word-initial two-consonant clusters usually consist of a fricative plus another consonant, e.g. . Rarer two-consonant clusters start with a lateral or a stop consonant, e.g..
 * Three-consonant clusters are rare, recorded examples include.