Catio language

Catío
Emberá-Catío
Native toColombia, Panama
Native speakers
(15,000 cited 1992)[1]
Chocoan
Language codes
ISO 639-3cto
Glottologembe1260
ELPEmberá-Catío

Catío Emberá (Catío, Katío) is an indigenous American language spoken by the Embera people of Colombia and Panama.[2]

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]

  1. ^ Catío at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d Catio language at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).