Opón language
Opón | |
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Opón-Karare Opone | |
Native to | Colombia |
Extinct | (date missing) |
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.
Phonology
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.[1]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ1 | ||
voiced | b | d | g | ||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
- [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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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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