Shebaya language

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Shebaya
Shebayo
Native to Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela  ?
Region Trinidad
Extinct by 20th century [1]
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qk3
Glottolog sheb1234
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  Shebaya

Shebaya (Shebaye, Shebayo) is an extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad and perhaps the Venezuelan coast, or in the Guianas according to Loukotka, who incorrectly classified it as Cariban. [2] It is only attested by a few words in a 1633 book by Joannes de Laet. [3] Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the Ta-Arawakan (Caribbean Arawakan) languages. [4]

References

  1. Aĭkhenvalʹd, A.Iu. (2002). Language Contact in Amazonia. Oxford University Press. p. 284. ISBN   9780199257850. Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA. p. 239. ISBN   9780879031077.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Laet, Johannes : de; Dusent, Cornelis Claessen (1633). Nouus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae occidentalis libri 18. Authore Ioanne de Laet Antuerp. nouis tabulis geographicis et variis animantium, plantarum fructuumque iconibus illustrati (in Latin). apud Elzevirios. p. 642.
  4. Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡, eds. (2006). The Amazonian languages. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed 1st pbk. version ed.). Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN   978-0-521-57893-6.