Native to Colombia, Ecuador Linguist list bpb (as Pasto) | Extinct (date missing) Glottolog past1243 | |
Language family Barbacoan
Awan
Pasto–Muellama
Pasto ISO 639-3 bpb (as Barbacoas, which may not be the same language) | ||
Pasto is a purported Barbacoan language that was spoken by indigenous people of Pasto, Colombia and Carchi Province, Ecuador. It is now extinct.
ISO issue
The ISO name of the ISO code [bpb] is 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 & Grondona 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 ISO code [bpb] can be properly used for the Pasto language.
Glottolog distinguishes unclassifiable [past1243] 'Pasto' from unattested [barb1242] 'Barbacoas'.