Wounaan language
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 | |
|---|---|
| Noanamá | |
| Woun Meu | |
| Native to | Panama |
| Ethnicity | Embera-Wounaan |
Native speakers | 10,800 (2007)[1] |
Chocoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | noa |
| Glottolog | woun1238[2] |
Phonology
The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
| Open | a | ||
All vowels have nasalized counterparts.[3]
Consonants
| 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 | ||||||||
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References
- Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Woun Meu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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