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Waunana Indian Language (Wounaan, Nonama, Chanco)

Waunana is a Chocoan language of Central and South America, spoken by around 6000 people in Panama and Colombia. It has SOV word order.

Waunana Language Resources

House of Languages: Waunana:
    Information about Waunana language usage.
Lengua Waunana:
    Information about the Waunana language including a linguistic map of Colombia. Page in Spanish.
Woun Meu:
    Demographic information on Waunana from the Ethnologue of Languages.
Waunana Language Tree:
    Theories about Waunana's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.
Waunana Language Structures:
    Waunana linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Links, References, and Additional Information

  Wikipedia: Embera-Wounaan: * Noanamá:
  Encyclopedia articles on the Embera and Wounaan people.
  Cultura de la Etnia Wounaan * Los Waunana * La Comunidad Emberá-Wounaan:
  Information about the Waunanas in Spanish.



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