Pasto language

Not to be confused with Pashto.

Pasto
Native to	Colombia, Ecuador
Ethnicity	Pasto people [es]
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Barbacoan^[citation needed] Awan Pasto–Muellama Pasto
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	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 Telembí,^[3] and it can only be assumed to be part of the Barbacoan family.^[4] 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. Floyd, Simeon (2022-01-01). "Ecuadorian Highland Quichua and the Lost Languages of the Northern Andes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 88 (1): 1–52. doi:10.1086/717056. ISSN 0020-7071.
4. 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.