Guna is a Chibchan language spoken by about 61,000 people mainly in the San Blas Islands in Guna Yala (Kuna Yala), an indigenous province in the northeast of Panama. There are also speakers of Guna in Darien Province in Panama, and in northwestern Colombia.
Guna is also known as Kuna or Cuna, and Guna speakers call their language Dulegaya, which means 'language of the people'. There are two varieties of Guna: San Blas Kuna, which is spoken in the San Blas Islands, and Border Kuna or Paya Kuna, which is spoken in Colombia, and in Darién Province in Panama. They are classified as separate languages in some sources.
There are several ways to write Guna with the Latin alphabet. A standard way to write the language was created by the Congreso General Guna (Guna General Congress) in 2010.
Download an alphabet chart for Guna (Excel)
The letters c, f, h, j, ñ, q, v, x and z are also used, but only in words borrowed from Spanish.
Information about Guna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guna_language
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_guna
https://www.elararchive.org/dk0251/
https://sanblas-islands.com/kuna-indians/language/
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sanb1242
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bord1248
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/kvn
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/cuk
https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/41525
Arhuaco, Bribri, Buglere, Cabécar, Guaymí, Guna, Kuna, Maléku, Paya, Rama, Teribe
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 29.07.25. Last modified: 29.07.25
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