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Opón language

Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.

Opón
Opón-Karare
Native toColombia
Extinct(date missing)
Cariban
  • Opón
Dialects
  • Opón
  • Carare
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologopon1234

Phonology edit

Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.[1]

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p b t d k g ʔ†
Fricative s ʃ h
Trill r
Nasal m n ɲ
Approximant w j

* [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i iː u uː
Mid e eː ə o oː
Open a aː

While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.

References edit

  1. ^ Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (1973). "A note on Opon-Carare". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 98 (2): 242–245. ISSN 0044-2666. JSTOR 25841439.


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