Panzaleo

Panzaleo, also called Shillipanu, was a pre-Inca language spoken around Quito and Latacunga in the Ecuadorian highlands by the Quitu people and neighbouring groups before the Spanish conquest. The chronicler Pedro Cieza de León mentioned it in 1553, and words and endings were recorded in the Relaciones geográficas de Indias.

It was poorly documented and died out in the seventeenth century, leaving its classification uncertain. A proposed link to Páez rests on weak evidence and may reflect contact rather than common origin.