| Wiwa | |
|---|---|
| Damana, Malayo | |
| Dʉmʉna | |
| Native to | Colombia |
| Region | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
| Ethnicity | Wiwa people |
Native speakers | 1,850 (2007)[1] |
Chibchan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mbp |
| Glottolog | mala1522 |
| ELP | Guamaca |
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Dʉmʉna (also known asMalayo orWiwa)[2][3][4] is aChibchan language spoken by the IndigenousWiwa people on the southern and eastern slopes ofSierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northernColombia. According toEthnologue, it was spoken by 1,850 people in 2007;[4] however, according to the Colombian Ministry of Culture, there were 13,627 Wiwa people in 2010, of whom some 60% speak Dʉmʉna well.[5]
Other alternative names include Damana, Malayo, Wiwa, Arosario, Arsario, Guamaca, Guamaka, Maracasero, Marocasero, Sancá, Sanja, Sanka, and Wamaka.
There are seven phonemic vowels in Dʉmʉna:[6]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
Dʉmʉna has 19 phonemic consonants:[6]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | tʃ | dʒ | k | g | ||
| Fricative | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | h | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Continuant | w | l | ||||||||
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