Opón-Carare language

Opón-Carare (Opone) is an extinct, unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia. It is most closely related to Yukpa.

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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

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Perspective

Giraldo and Fornaguera (1958)

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

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Consonants
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t			k	(ʔ)¹
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.

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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.

Lengerke (1878)

The following phonology is derived from the data in Lengerke (1878).

More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...

The phonology is the same in Carare, with the exception that /tʃ/ and /w/ are not present, and /ʃ/ interpreted for the sequence ⟨sy⟩.

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Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	(ə)	o
Open		a

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Opón-Carare language

Phonology

Giraldo and Fornaguera (1958)

Lengerke (1878)

References

Further reading

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