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Opón language
Extinct Cariban language of Colombia
Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.[1]
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Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ† | ||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Trill | r | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Approximant | w | j |
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* [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
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While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.