Opón language
Opón 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.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Plosive | p b | t d | | | k g | ʔ† |
| Fricative | | s | ʃ | | | h |
| Trill | | r | | | | |
| Nasal | m | n | | ɲ | | |
| Approximant | w | | | j | | |
* 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.
