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Pauxiána language

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Pauxiána
Pawishiana
Native toBrazil
RegionRoraima
Extinctafter 1944?[1][2]
Cariban
  • Venezuelan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpaux1236
Linguasphere80-AFB-ba

Pauixiana (Pawishiana) is a possibly[3] extinct Cariban language formerly spoken on the Catrimani River[4] in the Brazilian state of Roraima, closely related to Paravilhana.[5][6]

Vocabulary

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The following vocabulary is taken from a 1932 article on the Ỹaroamë people with an accompanying wordlist for Pauxiána.[4]

Pauxiána vocabulary[4]
Gloss Pauxiána
water tuná
fire uató
earth oró
sun uai
moon núna
star tauā́nă
man yungvei
people ukomó
woman uēli
child urémungú

References

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  1. Meyer, Alcuino (1956). Pauxiána: pequeno ensaio sobre a tribo Pauxiána e sua língua, comparada com a língua Macuxí (PDF). [Publicações do] Arquivo Nacional. Rio de Janeiro: Ministerio da Justiça e Negócios Interiores.
  2. Meyer, Alcuino (1957), "Pequeno ensaio sôbre a tribo Pauxiána e sua língua comparada com o idioma Makuxí" (PDF), Anais da IIa reunião brasileira de antropologia, Bahía: S. A. Artes Gráficas, pp. 167–185, retrieved 2026-07-21
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Pauxiana". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. "Pauxiana, a presumed extinct Venezuelan Cariban language, is missing from E16/E17/E18/E19/E20/E21/E22/E23/E24/E25/E26/E27/E28"
  4. 1 2 3 Salathé, Georges (1932). "Les indiens Karimé" (PDF). Revista del Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. 2: 297–316.
  5. The indigenous languages of South America : a comprehensive guide. Lyle Campbell, Verónica María. Grondona. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2012. p. 444. ISBN 978-3-11-025803-5. OCLC 785782848.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, Ronald E. (1994). Atlas of the world's languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5.