Pasé Language
Pasé (Passe) is an extinct, poorly attested, and unclassified Arawakan language Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branch .... Kaufman (1994) placed it in his Río Negro branch, but this is not followed in Aikhenvald (1999). References Indigenous languages of the South American Northern Foothills Arawakan languages {{Arawakan-lang-stub ...
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Maipurean Languages
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Almost all present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, the exceptions being Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock. Name The name ''Maipure'' was given to the family by Filippo S. Gilij in 1782, after the Maipure language of Venezuela, which he used as a basis of his comparisons. It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century later. The term ''Arawak'' took over, until its use was extended by North American scholars to the broader Macro-Arawakan propo ...
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Upper Amazon Arawakan
The Upper Amazon Maipurean languages, a.k.a. North Amazonian or Inland Northern Maipuran, are Arawakan languages of the northern Amazon in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil. Upper Amazon Arawakan has been surveyed comprehensively by Henri Ramirez (2001), which includes a historical reconstruction as well. Languages Kaufman (1994) Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown (Aikhenvald's names of branches in parentheses): * Western Nawiki (Colombian) ** Wainumá group ''(†)'' *** Wainumá ''(†)'' *** Mariaté ''(†)'' *** Anauyá ''(†)'' ** Piapoko group *** Achagua (Achawa) *** Piapoco *** Amarizana ''(†)'' *** Caviyari (Cabiyarí) ''(†?)'' ** Warekena group *** Guarequena (Warekena) *** Mandahuaca (Mandawaka) ** Río Negro group ''(†)'' *** Jumana (Yumana) ''(†)'' *** Pasé ''(†)'' *** Cawishana ''(†)'' ** Yucuna group *** Yucuna (Jukuna) *** Guarú ''(†)'' * Eastern Nawiki (Upper Rio Negro) ** Tariana ** Karu group *** Kurripako (a.k.a ...
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Arawakan Language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Almost all present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, the exceptions being Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock. Name The name ''Maipure'' was given to the family by Filippo S. Gilij in 1782, after the Maipure language of Venezuela, which he used as a basis of his comparisons. It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century later. The term ''Arawak'' took over, until its use was extended by North American scholars to the broader Macro-Arawakan propo ...
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Indigenous Languages Of The South American Northern Foothills
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