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Opón language

Opón language

Extinct Cariban language of Colombia

Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.

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Phonology

Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.[1]

More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...

* [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.

References

  1. [1]
    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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