Palta
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The Palta are a Peru
vian Native American
ethnic group. They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested Palta language
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Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
ethnic group. They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested Palta language
Palta language
The extinct Palta language of the Ecuadorian Amazon is attested by only a few words: yumé 'water', xeme 'maize', capal 'fire', let 'wood' , and some toponyms. Based on this, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño classified it as a Jivaroan language...
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