Palta people

{{other uses|Palta (disambiguation)}}

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The Palta were an indigenous people of Ecuador.{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440345/Palta|title=Palta|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=6 January 2015}} They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested Palta language.{{cite book |last=Mason |first=John Alden |authorlink=John Alden Mason |date=1950 |chapter=The languages of South America |editor-first1=Julian |editor-last1=Steward |title=Handbook of South American Indians |volume=6 |pages=157–317 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 |location=Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office}}