Opón language

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. [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.

While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.

References


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