Chocoan languages
| Chocoan | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Colombia & Panama |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog: | choc1280 |
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The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Native American languages spread across Colombia and Panama.
Choco consists of half a dozen known languages, all but two of them extinct.
Anserma, Arma, and Sinúfana are extinct.
The Emberá group consists of two languages mainly in Colombia with over 60,000 speakers that lie within a fairly mutually intelligible dialect continuum. Ethnologue divides this into 6 languages. Kaufman (1994) considers the term Cholo to be vague and condescending. Noanamá has some 6,000 speakers on the Panama-Colombia border.
Choco has been included in a number of hypothetical phylum relationships:
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