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Phonology

All claims and examples in this section come from Gordon (1986) unless otherwise noted.

Consonants

Phonemes and occur only in loanwords like kafe and narangk , both from Spanish. also occurs as an allophone of .

Vowels

Maricopa has 10 phonemic vowels made up of 5 pairs of corresponding long and short vowels with the cross-linguistically common five-way quality contrast:

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