Emberá Catío
Chocoan language spoken in Colombia and Panama
Catío Emberá (Catío, Katío) is an indigenous American language spoken by the Embera people of Colombia and Panama.
The language was spoken by 15,000 people in Colombia, and a few dozen in Panama, according to data published in 1992. 90 to 95% of the speakers are monolingual with a 1% literacy rate. The language is also known as Eyabida, and like most Embera languages goes by the name Embena 'human'.
01Phonology
02Writing system
Catio is written with the Latin script.
| a | ã | e | ẽ | i | ĩ | o | õ | u | ũ | ʉ | ʉ̃ |
| m | k | b | p | t | ch | s | z | g | j | r | rr | d | n | y | w | ñ |
Sources and credits
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- Emberá catío.png by Breogan2008, CC BY-SA 4.0
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