Betoi language
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| Betoi | |
|---|---|
| Jirara | |
| Native to | Venezuela |
| Region | Orinoco llanos |
| Extinct | 18th century |
| Language family | |
| Dialects |
Situfa
Airico
Lolaca
Jirara
Betoi
Ele
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Linguist List | qtd |
Betoi (Betoy) or Betoi-Jirara is an extinct language of Venezuela, south of the Apure River near the modern border with Columbia. The names Betoi and Jirara are those of two of its peoples/dialects; the language proper has no known name. At contact, Betoi was a local lingua franca spoken between the Uribante and Sarare rivers and along the Arauca. Enough was recorded for a brief grammatical monograph to be written (Zamponi 2003).
Betoi is generally seen as an isolate, though it has been included in Chibchan-Paezan proposals. Kaufman (2007) included it in Macro-Paesan.
Bibliography [edit]
- Raoul Zamponi (2003), Betoi, 428, Languages of the World/Materials, Lincom, p. 66, ISBN 3-89586-757-8
- Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: BETOI[1]
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