The Palta were an indigenous people of Ecuador.[1] They once spoke the unclassified and scarcely attested Palta language.[2]
. John Alden Mason . 1950 . The languages of South America . Julian . Steward . Handbook of South American Indians . 6 . 157–317 . Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 . Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.