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 toColombia, Panama
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.[2]

Vowels

Front Central Back
unrounded rounded
Close i ĩ ɯ ɯ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e ẽ ɤ ɤ̃ o õ
Open a ã

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless p t k ʔ
aspirated
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.[3]

References

  1. Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Mejía, Gustavo (2000). Presentación y descripción fonológica y morfosintáctica del waunana. In González de Pérez, María Stella and Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva: Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 85–96.
  3. Murillo Miranda, José Manuel; Marín Esquivel, Rebeca (2022). Notas sobre la fonología del waunana de Panamá. Revista Lengua Y Literatura, 8. pp. 17–39.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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