Southern Emberá

Facts

  • Language: Southern Emberá
  • Alternate names: Emberá- Baudó (Baudó, Catrú), Emberá-Chamí (Chami), Epena (Emberá-Saija, Saija, Epená Saija, Epéna Pedée, Southern Embera, Southern Empera, Cholo
  • Language code: cmi
  • Language family: Chocoan, Emberá, Southern Emberá (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~88,799
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    The Emberá dialect continuum (Catío, Chamí, Napipí River, Saija, Sambú) includes Southern Emberá and Northern Emberá (Emperã, Eberã Bed’ea, Eperã Pedea, Atrato, Darién, Dariena, Panama Embera, Eberã, Cholo [Choco]). Ethnologue lists 6 distinct Emberá languages, 2 Northern Emberá: Emberá-Catío [cto] Northern Emberá [Emp] and 4 Southern Emberá: Emberá-Baudó [bdc] Emberá-Chamí [cmi] Epena (Emberá-Saija) [sjia] Emberá-Tadó [tdc].