Wounaan language

Wounaan
Wounaan
Noanamá
Woun Meu
Native to	Panama
Ethnicity	Embera-Wounaan
Native speakers	10,800 (2007)
Language family	Chocoan Wounaan;
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

The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Vowels

	Front	Back
	Front	unrounded	rounded
Close	i	ɯ	u
Close-mid	e	ɤ	o
Open	a

All vowels have nasalized counterparts.^[2]

Consonants

		Bilabial		Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	aspirated	plain	aspirated	Palatal	plain	aspirated	Glottal
Stop	voiceless	p	pʰ	t	tʰ		k	kʰ	ʔ
Stop	voiced	b		d			g
Fricative				s		ç			h
Nasal		m		n
Approximant						j	w
Trill				r
Flap				ɾ

References

^ Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.

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[e18-1] Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.

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