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 | Colombia, Panama |
| Ethnicity | Embera-Wounaan |
Native speakers | 10,800 (2007)[1] |
Chocoan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | noa |
| Glottolog | woun1238 |
| ELP | Waunana |
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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 | 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.[3]