A member of an indigenous people of Colombia, or their language.
From Spanish 'Betoya,' referring to a pre-Columbian ethnic group inhabiting the Llanos region of Colombia. The word entered English anthropological terminology in the 19th century through ethnographic documentation.
The Betoya people are one of many Indigenous groups whose languages and cultures have been largely underdocumented; their language belongs to a linguistic family that helps us understand pre-Columbian migration patterns across South America.
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