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]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ1 | ||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
Trill | r | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Approximant | w | j |
- [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
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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