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.
- [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.