Emberá languages
Emberá (also known as Chocó) is a dialect continuum spoken by 100,000 people in northwestern Colombia and southeastern Panama. It belongs to the Choco language family.
| Emberá | |
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| Chocó | |
| Ethnicity | Emberá people |
| Geographic distribution | Colombia & Panama |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 100,000) |
| Linguistic classification | Chocoan
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| Glottolog | embe1258 |
Embera, Emperã, Empena, Eberã, Epena, etc. is the Embera word for 'human being' or 'man' and is used as the autonym by all speakers of varieties of Embera (though not by the related Wounaan). It is also sometimes used to refer to other indigenous people who are not of Emberá ethnicity.
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