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Opón
Opón-Karare Opone
Native to	Colombia
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Cariban Opón
Dialects	Opón Carare
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Linguist List	`qrz`
Glottolog	`opon1234`

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

Phonology

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

Consonants
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t			k	ʔ¹
Plosive	voiced	b	d			g
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Trill			r
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Approximant		w			j

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

Vowels
	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː			u	uː
Mid	e	eː	ə		o	oː
Open			a	aː

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

References

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^ Durbin, Marshall; Seijas, Haydée (1973). "A note on Opon-Carare". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 98 (2): 242–245. ISSN 0044-2666. JSTOR 25841439.

External links

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Wordlist of Cariban languages, including Opón

Cariban languages

Parukotoan

Pekodian

Venezuelan Carib

Tiverikoto–Yaio

Pemóng–Panare	Kapóng Makushi Panare Pemón Purukotó
Mapoyo–Tamanaku	Kumaná Mapoyo-Yawarana Tamanaku

Guianan Carib

Taranoan	Akuriyo Karihona Tiriyo

Unclassified

Paravilyana–Sapará	Paravilyana Paravilyana Pawishiana Sapará

Italics indicate extinct languages

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