Catío Emberá (Catío, Katío) is an indigenous American language spoken by the Embera people of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

and Panama.Emberá-Catío
Ethnologue, 1992, access date 04-18-08 The language was spoken by 15,000 people in Colombia, and a few dozen in Panama, according to data published in 1992. 90 to 95% of the speakers are monolingual with a 1% literacy rate. The language is also known as ''Eyabida'', and like most Embera languages goes by the name ''Embena'' 'human'.

Writing system

Catio is written with the Latin script.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Notes

Bibliography

* {{Languages of Colombia Choco languages Languages of Colombia