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

Phonology

The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounaan, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Vowels

Vowels^[2]

		Front	Central	Back
				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

		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.
• /t͡ʃ/ occurs as [ʃ] at the end of a word.^[3]