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 toPanama
EthnicityEmbera-Wounaan
Native speakers
10,800 (2007)[1]
Chocoan
  • Wounaan
Language codes
ISO 639-3noa
Glottologwoun1238
ELPWaunana

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.[2]

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

References
  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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