| Language name: | CUNA |
| UPSID number: | 6857 |
| Alternate name(s): | KUNA |
| Classification: | South American, Chibchan |
| This language has | 21 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.520430789 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p "t k kW b "d g gW tS "s m "n "r[ "l j w i "e a "o u |
| Comment: | 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. |
| Source(s): | Sherzer, J. 1983. Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective. University of Texas Press, Austin. |