20/08/2026
The Letter C in Okpe
In Okpe, C does not occur as a single consonant letter.
Instead:
✅ The soft C sound, like the /s/ sound in English city, is written with S in Okpe.
✅ The hard C sound, like the /k/ sound in English cat, is represented by K.
✅ Therefore, C is not used by itself to represent either of these sounds.
✅ However, the C sound can occur as part of the consonant combination “CH.” The CH produces the sound heard at the beginning of the English word “cheat”.
Example:
CH :: achichan :: Umbrella
So, in simple terms:
C cannot stand alone in Okpe. It appears in the combination CH, which produces the “ch” sound, as in “cheat.”