Opón language
Extinct Cariban language of Colombia
Opón | |
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Opón-Karare Opone | |
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 | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ1 | ||
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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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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