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Extinct Cariban language of Colombia
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Opón
Opón-Karare, Opone
Native toColombia
Extinct(date missing)
Language familyCariban
  • Opón
Dialects
  • Opón
  • Carare
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Linguist Listqrz
Glottologopon1234

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

Phonology

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

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d g
Fricative s ʃ h
Trill r
Nasal m n ɲ
Approximant w j
  1. may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
Vowels
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i u
Mid e ə o
Open a

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

References

  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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Cariban languages
Parukotoan
Pekodian
Venezuelan Carib
Pemóng–Panare
Mapoyo–Tamanaku
Guianan Carib
Taranoan
Unclassified
Paravilyana–Sapará
Italics indicate extinct languages


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