The Wounaan language, also known as Noanamá and Woun Meu, is a

Chocoan language The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama. Family division Choco consists of six known branches, all but two of which are extinct. *The Emberá lang ...

, with around 10,000 speakers on the border between

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

Phonology

The following tables show the vowel and consonant sounds of Wounann, transcribed using the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...

Vowels

All vowels have nasalized counterparts.

Consonants

References

Choco languages Embera-Wounaan Indigenous languages of Central America Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest {{na-lang-stub