Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent
Cariban language
The Cariban languages are a Language family, family of languages Indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spok ...
of Colombia.
Phonology
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.
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”may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.
References
External links
Wordlist of Cariban languages, including Opón
Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest
Cariban languages
Languages of Colombia
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