Shebayo language

Shebayo
Shebaya
Native to	Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela  ?
Region	Trinidad
Era	attested 1633 [1]
Language family	Arawakan Northern Ta-Arawakan Shebayo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	sheb1234
Shebayo

Shebayo (Shebaya, Shebaye) is an extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad ^[2] and perhaps the Venezuelan coast, or in the Guianas according to Loukotka, who incorrectly classified it as Cariban. ^[3] It is only attested by a few words in a 1633 book by Joannes de Laet. ^[1] Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the Ta-Arawakan (Caribbean Arawakan) languages. ^[4]

Vocabulary

The following is a compilation of all Shebayo vocabularies collected by Laet (1633), ^[1] de Goeje (1939) ^[5] and Taylor (1977). ^[6]

Shebayo vocabulary

de Laet (1633)	de Goeje (1939)	Taylor (1977)	gloss
heja	heja	heia, heja	father
hamma	hamma	hamma	mother
wackewijrrij	wa-ckewijrrij	wackewijrrij	head
vvackenoely	wa-ckenoey	wackenoely, wackenoey	ear
noeyerii	noeyerri	noeyerri	eye
vvassibaly	wa-ssibaly	wassibaly, wassi	nose
darrymaily	darrymaily	darrymaily	mouth
vvadacoely	wa-dacoely	wadacoely	teeth
vvatabaye	wa-tabaye	watabaye	legs
vvackehyrry	wa-ckehyrry	wackehyrry	feet
ataly	ataly	ataly	tree
hoerapallii	hoerapalli	hoerapallii	bow
hewerry	hewerry	hewerry	arrow
kyrtryrre	kyrtzyrre	kyrtzyrre	moon
vvecoelije	wecoelije	wecoelije	sun
annoto	annoto	-	urucu

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA. p. 239. ISBN   9780879031077.
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.
5. Goeje, De; H, C. (1939). "Nouvel examen des langues des Antilles". Journal de la société des américanistes. 31 (1): 1–120. doi:10.3406/jsa.1939.1984.
6. Taylor, Douglas MacRae (1977). Languages of the West Indies. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-1729-8.