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| Opón | |
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| Opón-Karare, Opone | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Extinct | 20th century |
Cariban
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qrz | |
| Glottolog | opon1234 |
Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera. [1]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ1 | ||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| 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.
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