Shebaya language

Shebaya
Shebaya
Shebayo
Native to	Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela ?
Region	Trinidad
Extinct	by 20th century
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Shebaya; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qk3
Glottolog	sheb1234
	Shebaya

Last updated October 20, 2025

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

↑ 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.
↑ 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)
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

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[google-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.

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