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Kuna language
Dulegaya (Kuna Language)
The Kuna Language, spoken by the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, belongs to the Chibchan linguistic family.
Phonemes
Kuna recognises 5 vowel phonemes and 17 consonantal phonemes.
Vowels
Consonants
The oclusive consonants p, t, and k become the sonorants b, d, and g when they are between vowels or beside the consonants m, n, l, r, y, or w, just as at the beginning of the word, when the pronunciation fluctuates liberally. The alveolars s through n become the palatals and like l after k.
Morphology
Kuna is an agglutinative language which contains words of up to about 9 morphemes, although words of two or three morphemes are more common. Most of the morphological complexity is found in the verb word, which contains suffixes of tense and aspect, plurals, negatives, position , and various adverbials. The verb word does not contain person.
References
Llerena Villalobos, Rito (1987) Relacion y determinacion en el predicado de la lengua Kuna. Bogota: CCELA - Universidad de los Andes. ISSN 0120-9507
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