The Palta were an

indigenous people Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

. They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested

Palta language The extinct Palta language of the Ecuadorian Amazon is attested by only a few words: ''yumé'' 'water', ''xeme'' 'maize', ''capal'' 'fire', ''let'' 'wood' (Jiménez de la Espada, 1586), and some toponyms. Based on this, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño ...

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Indigenous peoples in Ecuador Indigenous peoples of the Amazon {{SouthAm-ethno-group-stub