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256:(*) as a separate language. A case can be made for classifying Baudó in the Northern Embera group. It has many features of both groups and is partially intelligible with the neighboring Northern Embera dialect as well as with Epena.
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218:(Citará, Northwest Embera, West Embera): Darién (Sambú, Panamá Embera), Citará (Atrato, Andágueda), Juradó
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Languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.),
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Aguirre, Daniel L. (1993). "Dialectología chocó".
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279:. Languages of the World/materials 208. LINCOM.
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162:Embera, Emperã, Empena, Eberã, Epena
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168:Languages and regional variation
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275:Aguirre Licht, Daniel. (1999).
337:Biblioteca Ezequiel Uricoechea
328:Mortensen, Charles A. (1999).
312:Atlas of the World's Languages
124:Young Embera woman from Panama
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