| Opón | |
| Nativename: | Opón-Karare Opone |
| States: | Colombia |
| Extinct: | ? |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Cariban |
| Dia1: | Opón |
| Dia2: | Carare |
| Iso3: | none |
| Linglist: | qrz |
| Glotto: | opon1234 |
| Glottorefname: | Opón-Carare |
Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.[1]
| Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j |
| Close | i iː | u uː | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | e eː | ə | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |