Catio language should not be confused with Old Catio language.
| Catío | |
| Nativename: | Emberá-Catío |
| States: | Colombia, Panama |
| Speakers: | 15,000 |
| Date: | 1992 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Chocoan |
| Fam2: | Emberá |
| Fam3: | Northern |
| Iso3: | cto |
| Glotto: | embe1260 |
| Glottorefname: | Embera-Catio |
| Map: | Emberá catío.png |
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'.
Catio is written with the Latin script.
| ã | e | ẽ | i | ĩ | o | õ | u | ũ | ʉ | ʉ̃ |
| k | b | p | t | ch | s | z | g | j | r | rr | d | n | y | w | ñ |
| Plosive/ Affricate | aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ejective | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Fricative | aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| ejective | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Rhotic | trill | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| tap | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | ||||