Betoi language

Betoi is generally seen as an isolate, though Kaufman (2007) included it in Macro-Paesan.

Zamponi (2017) finds enough lexical resemblances between Betoi and the Saliban languages to conclude that a genealogical relationship is plausible.Zamponi, Raoul (2017). Betoi-Jirara, Sáliban, and Hod i: Relationships among Three Linguistic Lineages of the Mid-Orinoco Region. Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2017, pp. 263-321.

Historically a dialect cluster, varieties include Betoi, Jirara, Situfa, Ayrico, Ele, Lucalia, Jabúe, Arauca, Quilifay, Anabali, Lolaca, and Atabaca.{{cite book |editor-last=Epps |editor-first=Patience |editor-last2=Michael |editor-first2=Lev |title=Amazonian Languages: Language Isolates. Volume I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Chapra |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |location=Berlin |date=2023 |isbn=978-3-11-041940-5}}

Below is a full list of Betoi varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/biblio:loukotka-1968-classification |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles |authorlink=Čestmír Loukotka}}

• Betoi / Guanero / Isabaco - extinct language once spoken on the Casanare River, Cravo Norte River, and Apure River, Arauca territory, Colombia.
• Situfa / Cituja - extinct language once spoken on the Casanare River in the Arauca region.
• Airico - once spoken at the sources of the Manacacías River. (Gumilla 1745, pt. 2, pp. 243-247, only a few words.)
• Jirara - spoken once in the upper Manacacías River region. (Gumilla 1745, pt. 1, pp. 201 and 203, pt. 2, pp. 16 and 328, only a few words and phrases.)
• Atabaca - once spoken in the upper Manacacías River region. (Gumilla 1745, pt. 2, p. 274, only a few words.)
• Lolaca - once spoken on the confluence of the Arauca River and Chitagá River. (Unattested.)
• Quilifay - once spoken around the confluence of the Arauca River and Chitagá River. (Unattested.)
• Anabali - spoken south of the Atabaca tribe around the confluence of the Arauca River and Chitagá River. (Unattested.)
• Ele - spoken on the Ele River. (Unattested.)

Lexicon of Betoi compiled by Zamponi (2003) from various sources:Zamponi, Raoul. 2003. Betoi. Languages of the World, 428. München: Lincom Europa.

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{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Betoi word list}}

• {{cite dictionary

|first=Alain

|last=Fabre

|year=2005

|title=Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: BETOI

|url=http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%20diccionario/Dic=Betoi.pdf

}}

• {{cite book |url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/South%20American/Other/Betoi%20%28Zamponi%29.pdf |title=Betoi |volume=Languages of the World/Materials |first=Raoul |last=Zamponi |publisher=Lincom |year=2003 |isbn=3-89586-757-8 |series=428 |page=66}}

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