Quappa

[Rankin, Robert L]

Yeah, it's supposed to have been only following rounded vowels, but there's clearly some dialect mixing involved.  
 
There is no attestation of any fluent Quapaw speaker making the substitution however.  It was either a Euro-American phenomenon or a very late semi-rememberer of the language.  It's all [x] in Dorsey and Gatschet's 19th century stuff as well as the c. 1825 list from Gen. Izard.
 
Bob

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Rankin, Robert L wrote:

> Similar change takes place in English, after all, where the /x/ of
> 'enough, rough, tough', etc. was replaced with [f]

Good point. The change in English (that of London, at least) was mostly
accomplished in 15-16c, though 'thurf' appears for 'through' in 13c.

Alan