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.
Wounaan | |
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Noanamá | |
Woun Meu | |
Native to | Colombia, Panama |
Ethnicity | Embera-Wounaan |
Native speakers | 10,800 (2007) |
Chocoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | noa |
Glottolog | woun1238 |
ELP | Waunana |
The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Front | Central | Back | ||
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unrounded | rounded | |||
Close | i ĩ | ɯ ɯ̃ | u ũ | |
Close-mid | e ẽ | ɤ ɤ̃ | o õ | |
Open | a ã |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
voiced | b | d | g | |||
Affricate | (tʃ) | |||||
Fricative | s | ɕ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | l | j | w | |||
Trill | r | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
/ɕ/ occurs as [t͡ʃ] across dialects.
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