Catio language
Catío Emberá (Catío, Katío) is an indigenous American language spoken by the Embera people of Colombia and Panama.[2]
| Catío | |
|---|---|
| Emberá-Catío | |
| Native to | Colombia, Panama |
Native speakers | (15,000 cited 1992)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cto |
| Glottolog | embe1260 |
| ELP | Emberá-Catío |
The language was spoken by 15,000 people in Colombia, and a few dozen in Panama, according to data published in 1992.[2] 90 to 95% of the speakers are monolingual with a 1% literacy rate.[2] The language is also known as Eyabida, and like most Embera languages goes by the name Embena 'human'.[2]
Writing system
Catio is written with the Latin script.[3]
| 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 |
Phonology
Notes
- Catío at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Emberá-Catío, Ethnologue, 1992, access date 04-18-08
- Silva Vallejo & Majore 2018, p. 77-78.
- Mortensen, Charles Arthur (1994). Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology. University of Texas at Arlington.
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