Pasto language

Not to be confused with Pashto.

Pasto
Native to	Colombia, Ecuador
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Barbacoan [ citation needed ] Awan Pasto–Muellama Pasto
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bpb Barbacoas (retired)
Linguist List	bpb (as Pasto)
Glottolog	past1243   Pasto barb1242   Barbacoas

Pasto is a poorly attested Barbacoan language that was spoken by Indigenous people of Pasto, Colombia and Carchi Province, Ecuador. It is now extinct.

ISO issue

Prior to its retirement, ^[1] the ISO name of the ISO code [bpb] was Barbacoas, the name of an extinct people who gave their name to the Barbacoan language family of which Pasto is a member, as well as to the Colombian town of Barbacoas. However, nothing is known of their language, one of several also known as Colima, ^[2] and it can only be assumed to be part of the Barbacoan family. ^[3] Such unattested, long-extinct languages are not normally assigned ISO codes. MultiTree conflates Barbacoas with neighboring Pasto, which is attested sufficiently for classification and assignment of an ISO code. This does not, however, mean that the retired ISO code [bpb] can be properly used for the Pasto language.

Glottolog distinguishes unclassifiable [past1243] 'Pasto' from unattested [barb1242] 'Barbacoas'.

References

1. "Request Number 2019-019 for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code" (PDF). SIL International. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages . Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. p. 247.
3. Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the Indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. p. 78. ISBN   9783110255133.