Opón language

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

Opón
Opón-Karare, Opone
Native to	Colombia
Region	Opon River, Santander Department
Extinct	late 20th century
Language family	Cariban Opón group Opón
Dialects	Opón Carare
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qrz
Glottolog	opon1234

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.