[citation needed] The Emberá group consists of two languages mainly in Colombia with over 60,000 speakers that lie within a fairly mutually intelligible dialect continuum.

Kaufman (1994) considers the term Cholo to be vague and condescending.

Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):[1] († = extinct) Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Guahibo, Kamsa, Paez, Tukano, Witoto-Okaina, Yaruro, Chibchan, and Bora-Muinane language families due to contact.

[1]: 324 Choco has been included in a number of hypothetical phylum relationships: Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Chocó languages.

[4] For reconstructions of Proto-Chocó and Proto-Emberá by Constenla and Margery (1991),[5] see the corresponding Spanish article.