Pasto is a purported Barbacoan language that was spoken by indigenous people of

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and

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, Ecuador. It is now extinct.

ISO issue

Prior to its retirement, the ISO name of the ISO code

 pb/code> 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 (Loukotka 1968: 247), and it can only be assumed to be part of the Barbacoan family (Campbell 2012: 78). Such unattested, long-extinct languages are not normally assigned ISO codes.  ''MultiTree'' conflates Barbacoas with neighboring Pasto, which is well-enough attested for classification and assignment of an ISO code.  This does not however mean that the retired ISO code  pb/code> can be properly used for the Pasto language.

''Glottolog'' distinguishes unclassifiable  ast1243/code> 'Pasto' from unattested  arb1242/code> 'Barbacoas'.

 References





 Awan languages
 Extinct languages of South America
 Unattested languages of South America
 Unclassified languages of South America

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