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Pasé language

Pasé (Passe) is a poorly attested and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested in a single 19th-century wordlist. The Passe people are reported to be in voluntary isolation from the rest of the world.

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Pasé
Passe
Native toColombia,1 formerly Brazil
RegionAmazonas
EthnicityPasse
Arawakan
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Pasé (Passe) is a poorly attested and unclassified Arawakan language. It is attested in a single 19th-century wordlist.2 The Passe people are reported to be in voluntary isolation from the rest of the world.13

Classification

Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Río Negro branch,4 but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999).5 It is grouped with Yumana in the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).6

References

References

  1. Sanabria, Catalina (2024-10-16). "Pueblos indígenas en aislamiento: ¿qué se sabe y cómo protegerlos sin contactarlos?". InfoAmazonia (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2026-01-21.
  2. Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp von (1867). Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's zumal Brasiliens: 1. Zur Ethnographie: Volume 2. Cambridge library collection. Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–256. ISBN 978-0-511-70459-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  3. "Uncontacted Peoples: at the edge of survival" (PDF). Survival International. ISBN 978-1-9192188-1-6. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  4. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.
  5. Aikhenvald, Alexandra (1999). "The Arawak language family". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Aikhenvald, Alexandra (eds.). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (1. publ ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57021-3.
  6. Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN 2177-7160.