Catio language
| 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 |
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]
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 | |||
Notes
- ^ Catío at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d Emberá-Catío, Ethnologue, 1992, access date 04-18-08
- ^ Mortensen, Charles Arthur (1994). Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology. University of Texas at Arlington.