Catio-Embera language

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Catío Emberá
Spoken in: Colombia, Panama
Total speakers: 15,040
Language family: American
 Choco
  Embera
   Northern
    Catío Emberá
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cto
ISO 639-3: cto

Catío Emberá is an indigenous american language spoken in north western south america.[1]

spoken by 15,000 native people in Colombia that also has a few dozen speakers in Panama.[1] 90 to 95% of monolingual.[1] Also known as: Catio, Katio, Embena, Eyabida.[1] 1% literacy rate.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Emberá-Catío, Ethnologue, 1992, access date 04-18-08