Pasé language

Pasé
Passe
Native toColombia,[1] formerly Brazil
RegionAmazonas
EthnicityPasse
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qoj
Glottologpass1250

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.[1][3]

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

  1. ^ a b 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.