{{Short description|Extinct Cariban language}} {{Infobox language | name = Pauxi | familycolor = Cariban | iso3 = none | glotto = paux1235 | fam1 = Cariban | fam2 = Guianian | fam3 = Taranoan | fam4 = Tiriyoan | states = Brazil | region = Pará | era = attested 1900 | ref = <ref name=":0" /> | altname = Pawiyana | ELP = 3099 | ELPname = Katxúyana }}
'''Pauxi''' (Pawixi, Pawiyana<ref name=":02">{{Citation |last=Migliazza|first=Ernest C.|title=1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status|date=1985-12-31|work=South American Indian Languages|pages=15–139|editor-last=Klein|editor-first=Harriet E. Manelis|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7560/775923-002/html|access-date=2026-05-24|publisher=University of Texas Press|doi=10.7560/775923-002|isbn=978-1-4773-0025-1|editor2-last=Stark|editor2-first=Louisa R.}}</ref>) is an extinct Cariban language of Brazil, once spoken on the right bank of the middle course of the Erepecurú River (Cuminá River) in Brazil.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Pauxi |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/paux1235 |access-date=2025-10-17 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Coudreau |first=Olga |title=Voyage au Cuminá: 20 avril- 7 septembre 1900 |date=1901 |publisher=A. Lahure |location=Paris |pages=132-133 |language=fr | url = https://archive.org/details/voyageaucumin1901coud }}</ref>
== Vocabulary == {| class="wikitable" |+Pauxi vocabulary<ref name=":0" /> !Gloss !Pauxi |- |sun |icire |- |moon |noune |- |star |siriké |- |day |oménoro |- |night |coco |- |rain |cono-on |- |thunder |capo |- |sky |topeu |- |water |touna |- |river |touna icouaca |- |man |tolo |- |woman |orice |- |child |moriré |- |brother |yacono |- |my husband |ouamo |- |my wife |iama |- |fish |coumata |- |hook |yamta |- |cassava |jouro |- |manioc flour (couac) |caïama |- |arrow |préou |- |dog |aouara |- |tapir |ouaou |- |doe |gouchaou |- |jaguar |caïcousso |- |egg |pomo |- |chicken |caïtara |- |curassow |paouïs |- |macaw |couyara |- |trahira |aïmara |- |yellow-spotted river turtle |chaouaro |- |piranha |poune |- |small |acatapico |- |large |acane |- |to eat |mamaou |- |wait for me |camaïto |- |make fire |miouto |- |to leave |machiconé |}
== References == <references /> {{Cariban languages}}{{Languages of Brazil}}{{IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub}} Category:Cariban languages