Palta people

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The Palta were an indigenous people of Ecuador.^[1] They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested Palta language.^[2]

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↑ "Palta". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
↑ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

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