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Labial
Coronal
Dorsal
Radical
Laryngeal
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Dental
Alveolar
Palato-alveolar
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Epi-glottal
Glottal
Plosive
p b         *t *d             k ɡ ɡʷ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Affricates
                                 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
  m           *n                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                           
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                             
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
                                               
Sibilant fricatives
            *s                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                          j   w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Close
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Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Selected languages: Cuna
UPSID number: 6857
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: South American, Chibchan
The languages has 21 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Cuna is spoken on San Blas Island, Panama, and
on the Caribbean coast astride the Panama/Colombia border.
All vowels may occur long. The voiceless stops and the
affricate are, from a morphological point of view,
geminates. Other consonants, except /w/, actually occur
geminated. Syllable canon is (C)V(C), i.e. no more than
two adjacent medial consonants can occur.

Sources:

Sherzer, J. 1983. Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic
Perspective. University of Texas Press, Austin.