Opón language
Extinct Cariban language of Colombia
| Opón | |
|---|---|
| Opón-Karare | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Language family | Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
Linguist List | 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| 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
- ^ 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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