Opón-Carare language

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

Opón-Carare
Opón, Opón-Karare, Opone
Native to	Colombia
Region	Opon River, Santander Department
Extinct	late 20th century
Language family	Cariban Opón group Opón-Carare
Dialects	Opón Carare
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qrz
Glottolog	opon1234
Opon-Carare is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Phonology

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
	voiced	b	d			g
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Trill			r
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Approximant		w			j

1. [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-Carare.