Wounaan language
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Wounaan | |
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Noanamá | |
Woun Meu | |
Native to | Colombia, Panama |
Ethnicity | Embera-Wounaan |
Native speakers | 10,800 (2007)[1] |
Chocoan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | noa |
Glottolog | woun1238 |
ELP | Waunana |
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.
Phonology
[edit]The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |||
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unrounded | rounded | ||||
Close | oral | i | ɯ | u | |
nasal | ĩ | ɯ̃ | ũ | ||
Close-mid | oral | e | ɤ | o | |
nasal | ẽ | ɤ̃ | õ | ||
Open | oral | a | |||
nasal | ã |
Consonants
[edit]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 | (ʃ) | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Approximant | l | j | w | |||
Trill | r | |||||
Flap | ɾ |
- [ʔ] occurs at the beginning of a vowel-initial word.[4]
- /t͡ʃ/ occurs as [ʃ] at the end of a word.[5] Mejía (2000) uses /ɕ/ in place of /t͡ʃ/.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Mejía 2000.
- ^ a b Murillo Miranda & Marín Esquivel 2022, p. 20.
- ^ Murillo Miranda & Marín Esquivel 2022, p. 24.
- ^ Murillo Miranda & Marín Esquivel 2022, p. 25.
References
[edit]- Mejía, Gustavo (2000). "Presentación y descripción fonológica y morfosintáctica del waunana". In González de Pérez, María Stella; Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa (eds.). Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva. Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 85–96.
- Murillo Miranda, José Manuel; Marín Esquivel, Rebeca (2022). "Notas sobre la fonología del waunana de Panamá". Revista Lengua y Literatura (in Spanish). 8 (1): 17–39.