Kuna language
Kuna is an indigenous American language that, along with Ngäbere, is one of the two most common Chibcha languages . It is spoken in Panama and Colombia by the ethnic group of the same name, the Kuna . The number of native speakers is almost 60,000 people. There are two dialects: the San Blas dialect (also called Island Kuna) and the Border or Mountain Kuna dialect.
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Kuna is written in a Latin-based alphabet:
| Kuna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| a | e | i | O | u | b | d | G | l | m | n | r | s | w | y | mm | nn | ns | ts | |||||||
| IPA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ä | e | ɪ | ɣ | u̟ | p | d | G | l | m | n | ɾ | s | v | j | mˑ | nˑ | nʃ | tʃ | |||||||
Examples
Nuwedi = Thank you, good morning
Nuweigambi = Nice to see you
Beikeni ginika? = What's your name?
Anugaden ... = My name is ...
Beiya benega? = Where are you from?
Takeimalo = Thank you
Web links
- The Kuna Phrasebook Project. (PDF; 513 kB)