| Wounaan | |
| Also Known As: | Noanamá |
| Nativename: | Woun Meu |
| States: | Colombia, Panama |
| Ethnicity: | Embera-Wounaan |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Chocoan |
| Iso3: | noa |
| Glotto: | woun1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Woun Meu |
| Map: | Wounaan.png |
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.
The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet.[1]
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||||
| Close | i ĩ | ɯ ɯ̃ | u ũ | ||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | ɤ ɤ̃ | o õ | ||
| Open | a ã | ||||
| 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 | ||||||