Emberá languages
| Emberá | |
|---|---|
| Chocó | |
| Geographic distribution | Colombia & Panama |
| Ethnicity | Emberá people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 100,000) |
| Linguistic classification | Chocoan
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | embe1258 |
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.
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.