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Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.
| Opón | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Phonology
editMarshall 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 | |||||
- [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
| 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.
References
edit- ^ Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (1973). "A note on Opon-Carare". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 98 (2): 242–245. ISSN 0044-2666. JSTOR 25841439.242-245&rft.date=1973&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25841439#id-name=JSTOR&rft.issn=0044-2666&rft.aulast=Durbin&rft.aufirst=Marshall&rft.au=Seijas, Haydée&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Opón language" class="Z3988">
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