Cahto (also spelled Kato) is an extinct Athabaskan language that was formerly spoken by the Kato people of the Laytonville and Branscomb area at the head of the South Fork of the Eel River. It is one of the four languages belonging to the ''California Athabaskan'' cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Most Kato speakers were bilingual in Northern Pomo and some also spoke Yuki.

Phonology

Consonants

Cahto has 26 consonant phonemes and 30 phones.

Vowels

Cahto has 9 vowel phonemes (including the diphthong) and 12 phones.

References

* University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography 5(3):65-238. * Goddard, Pliny Earle (1912). ''Elements of the Kato Language.'' University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography 11(1):1-176. * * Golla, Victor (2011). ''California Indian Languages.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. .

External links

Kato language
overview at the

Survey of California and Other Indian Languages The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (originally the Survey of California Indian Languages) at the University of California at Berkeley documents, catalogs, and archives the indigenous languages of the Americas. The survey also hosts ...

Kato Language (Cahto)
nativelanguages.org

Experimental Cahto lexical database

OLAC resources in and about the Kato language

Kato basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages Extinct languages of North America Languages of the United States Languages extinct in the 1960s {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub