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Catío
Emberá-Catío
Native to	Colombia, Panama
Native speakers	(15,000 cited 1992)
Language family	Chocoan Emberá Northern Catío
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.

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

1. Catío at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Catio language at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
3. Silva Vallejo & Majore 2018, p. 77-78.
4. ^ Mortensen, Charles Arthur (1994). Nasalization in a revision of Embera-Katio phonology (MA thesis). Arlington: University of Texas.

Bibliography

• Silva Vallejo, Fabio; Majore, Iván Antonio Dominico (2018). "Los emberá katio del Alto Sinú-Córdoba". Oraloteca (in Spanish). 9: 64–84.

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