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Cocopah is a Delta language of the Yuman language family spoken by the Cocopah. In an effort to keep the language alive which was spoken by fewer than 400 people at the turn of the 21st-century the Cocopah Museum began offering Cocopah language classes to children in 1998. The language had no alphabet until the 1970s when a scholar developed one for a university dissertation. It proved to be less than ideal and a new alphabet was developed by the tribe in the early 2000s.