Wounaan language
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Wounaan | |
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Noanamá | |
Woun Meu | |
Native to | Panama |
Ethnicity | Embera-Wounaan |
Native speakers | 10,800 (2007)[1] |
Chocoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | noa |
Glottolog | woun1238 |
ELP | Waunana |
The Wounaan language, also known as Noanamá and Woun Meu, is a Chocoan language, with around 10,000 speakers on the border between Panama and Colombia.
Phonology[edit]
The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Vowels[edit]
Front | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|
unrounded | rounded | ||
Close | i | ɯ | u |
Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
Open | a |
All vowels have nasalized counterparts.[2]
Consonants[edit]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | plain | aspirated | ||||
Stop | voiceless | p | pʰ | t | tʰ | k | kʰ | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | g | ||||||
Fricative | s | ç | h | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||
Approximant | j | w | |||||||
Trill | r | ||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
References[edit]
- ^ Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.