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Choco

South American Language Families

Choco, also spelled Chocoan, Choco or Choko, is a small family of Indigenous languages spread across Colombia and Panama and is counted among the world's primary language families. Its largest branch is Embera, comprising two languages with more than 60,000 speakers combined that together form a fairly mutually intelligible dialect continuum, while Waunana, also called Noanama and spoken on the Panama-Colombia border, has about 6,000 speakers. Several other languages once associated with the family, including Anserma, Arma and Caramanta, are extinct and only tentatively classified within it.

Facts
Region
Colombia and Panama 1
Proto-Language Status
Reconstructed: Proto-Choco and Proto-Embera reconstructed by Constenla and Margery (1991) 1
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1. Wikipedia: Chocoan Languages
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  • Wikipedia: Chocoan languages, opening paragraph
    The Chocoan languages (also Choco, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Indigenous languages spread across Colombia and Panama.
  • Wikipedia: Chocoan languages, Proto-language section
    For reconstructions of Proto-Chocó and Proto-Emberá by Constenla and Margery (1991), see the corresponding Spanish article.
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Wikidata: Choco
Wikidata Q1075616, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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