Palta language

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For other uses, see Palta (disambiguation).
Palta
Native toEcuador
RegionLoja Province
EthnicityPalta people
Extinctcolonial era
unclassified (Chicham?[1])
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
jiv-pal
GlottologNone

The Palta language is an extinct language of the Ecuadorian Amazon, formerly spoken by the Palta people.

Classification

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Based on this, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño (1936) classified it as a Jivaroan language. Kaufman (1994) states that there is "little resemblance",[2] but Adelaar (2004)[3] finds the connection reasonable. In addition to these four words are toponyms, which commonly end in -anga, -numa, -namá. The latter two suggest the Jivaroan locative case suffix -num ~ -nam, and Torero (1993) notes that the last resembles Aguaruna (Jivaroan) namák(a) 'river' as well.

Mason (1950) also lists Malacata as an alternate name for Palta.[4]

Vocabulary

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It is attested by only a few words: yumé 'water', xeme 'maize', capal 'fire', let 'firewood'[5] (Jiménez de la Espada, 1586), and some toponyms.

Bibliography

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  • Jiménez de la Espada, Marcos, ed. (1965 [1586]): Relaciones geográficas de Indias: Perú, 3 vols. Biblioteca de Autores Españoles 183–5. Madrid: Atlas.
  • 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).

References

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  1. ^ "Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Jolkesky 2016) - Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú". www.etnolinguistica.org. Retrieved 2025-01-25.
  2. ^ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
  3. ^ Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-48685-2.
  4. ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South American Indians". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
  5. ^ Campbell, Lyle (2024-06-25), "Indigenous Languages of South America", The Indigenous Languages of the Americas (1 ed.), Oxford University PressNew York, pp. 182–279, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197673461.003.0004, ISBN 978-0-19-767346-1, retrieved 2025-06-08
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