Panzaleo (''Pansaleo, Quito, Latacunga'') is a poorly attested and unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the region of Quito until the 17th century.

Attestation

Much of the information on Panzaleo comes from

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s of central and northern Ecuador. Typical are: :''-(h)aló'': Pilaló, Mulahaló :''-leo'': Tisaleo,

Pelileo Pelileo (full form, San Pedro de Pelileo) is a city located at the center of the Andean region of Ecuador called ''La Sierra'' ("the highlands"). It is the seat of Pelileo Canton (48,988 inhabitants, 2001 Census), and forms part of Tungurahua Prov ...

:''-lagua / -ragua'': Cutuglagua,

Tungurahua Tungurahua (; from Quichua ''tunguri'' (throat) and ''rahua'' (fire), "Throat of Fire")) is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. The volcano gives its name to the province of Tungurahua. Volcanic activity rest ...

Classification

Loukotka (1968) suggested that Panzaleo might be related to Paez. (See

Paezan languages Paezan (also Páesan, Paezano, Interandine) may be any of several hypothetical or obsolete language-family proposals of Colombia and Ecuador named after the Paez language. Proposals Currently, Páez (Nasa Yuwe) is best considered either a langu ...

.) One of his sources for this proposal was Jijón y Caamaño (1940), who admit that the evidence is weak and may have been due to language contact.

References

{{reflist * Jijón y Caamaño, Jacinto (1936–8): ''Sebastián de Benalcázar'', vol. 1 (1936) Quito: Imprenta del Clero; vol. 2 (1938) Quito: Editorial Ecuatoriana. * Jijón y Caamaño, Jacinto (1940–5): ''El Ecuador interandino y occidental antes de la conquista castellana'', vol. 1 (1940), vol. 2 (1941), vol. 3 (1943), vol. 4 (1945). Quito: Editorial Ecuatoriana (1998 edition, Quito: Abya-Yala). * Jiménez de la Espada, Marcos, ed. (1965

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: ''Relaciones geográficas de Indias: Perú'', 3 vols. Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 183–5. Madrid: Atlas. Indigenous languages of South America Unclassified languages of South America Macro-Paesan languages