Pasto language

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Pasto
Native to Colombia, Ecuador
Ethnicity Pasto people  [ es ]
Extinct (date missing)
Barbacoan [ citation needed ]
  • Awan
    • Pasto–Muellama
      • Pasto
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
bpb (as Pasto)
Glottolog past1243

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.[ citation needed ] 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.
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