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Cahto
Native to	United States
Region	California (Eel River)
Ethnicity	Cahto people
Extinct	1960se18
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Na-Dené Athabaskan Pacific Coast Athabaskan California Athabaskan Kato

Cahto (also spelled Kato) is an extinct Athabaskan language that was formerly spoken by the Kato people of the Laytonville and Branscomb area at the head of the South Fork of the Eel River. It is one of the four languages belonging to the California Athabaskan cluster of the Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Most Kato speakers were bilingual in Northern Pomo and some also spoke Yuki.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Uvular	Glottal
		Labial	Dental	central	lateral	Post- alveolar	Palatal	plain	labial	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m ⟨m⟩		n ⟨n⟩			ɲ ⟨ñ⟩
Plosive/ Affricate	unaspirated	b ⟨b⟩	t~d ⟨d⟩	ts ⟨ts⟩		t͡ʃ~d͡ʒ ⟨dj⟩	c~ɟ ⟨g⟩	k~[[Error using : IPA symbol "g" not found in list\|g]] ⟨g⟩	kʷ ⟨kw⟩	k~q ⟨q⟩	ʔ ⟨′⟩
	ejective		tʼ ⟨t'⟩	tsʼ ⟨ts'⟩	tɬʼ ⟨L⟩	t͡ʃʼ ⟨tc'⟩	cʼ ⟨k'⟩	kʼ ⟨k'⟩	[[Error using : IPA symbol "kʷʼ" not found in list\|kʷʼ]] ⟨kw'⟩
	aspirated		tʰ ⟨t⟩			t͡ʃʰ ⟨tc⟩	[[Error using : IPA symbol "cʰ" not found in list\|cʰ]] ⟨k⟩	kʰ ⟨k⟩
Fricative	voiceless			s ⟨s⟩	ɬ ⟨ʟ⟩	ʃ ⟨c⟩					h ⟨h⟩
Fricative	voiced			z ⟨z⟩		ʒ		ɣ ⟨ɢ⟩
Approximant				l ⟨l⟩			j ⟨y⟩		w ⟨w⟩

Cahto has 26 consonant phonemes and 30 phones.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back	Diphthong
High	[i(ː)] ī	[ɪ] i ~ [ʊ] û	[u(ː)] ū
High-Mid	[e(ː)] ē	[e] ɛ ~ [ə] ę	[o(ː)] ō
Low-Mid	[ɛ] ɛ ~ [ə] ę		[ʌ] ą ~ [a] a
Low	[a(ː)] ā, [ʌ] ą ~ [a] a			[ai] ai

Cahto has 9 vowel phonemes (including the diphthong) and 12 phones.

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