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Pazeh | |
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Pazih, Pazéh | |
Native to | Taiwan |
Ethnicity | Pazeh people, Kaxabu people |
Extinct | 2010, with the death of Pan Jin-yu (Pazeh)[1] 12 (2013, Kaxabu dialect)[2] |
Revival | 2010s[3] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pzh |
Glottolog | paze1234 |
ELP | Pazeh-Kaxabu |
![]() (pink, northwest) Saisiyat, Pazeh and Kulon. Some Chinese-language sources designate the white area in the northwest as a Kulon area, as opposed to the small pink circle on this map.[4] | |
Pazeh (also spelled Pazih, Pazéh) and Kaxabu are dialects of an extinct language of the Pazeh and Kaxabu, neighboring Taiwanese indigenous peoples. The language was Formosan, of the Austronesian language family. The last remaining native speaker of the Pazeh dialect died in 2010.