Catio language

Catío
Emberá-Catío
Native to Colombia, Panama
Native speakers
 (15,000 cited 1992)[1]
Chocoan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cto
Glottolog embe1260[2]

Catío Emberá (Catío, Katío) is an indigenous American language spoken by the Embera people of Colombia and Panama.[3]

The language was spoken by 15,000 people in Colombia, and a few dozen in Panama, according to data published in 1992.[3] 90 to 95% of the speakers are monolingual with a 1% literacy rate.[3] The language is also known as Eyabida, and like most Embera languages goes by the name Embena 'human'.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop aspirated pʰ tʰ kʰ
ejective pʼ tʼ kʼ
voiced b d
Fricative aspirated sʰ h
ejective sʼ
Affricate aspirated t͡ʃʰ
ejective t͡ʃʼ
voiced d͡ʒ
Nasal m n
Rhotic ɾ, r
Approximant w

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i ĩ ɯ ɯ̃ u ũ
Mid e ẽ o õ
Low a ã

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Notes

  1. ↑ Catío at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Embera-Catio". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Emberá-Catío, Ethnologue, 1992, access date 04-18-08
  4. ↑ Mortensen, Charles Arthur (1994). Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology. University of Texas at Arlington.
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