Shebaya (Shebaye, Shebayo) is an extinct
Arawakan language
Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branch ...
of
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
and perhaps the Venezuelan coast. It is only attested by a few words. Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the
Ta-Arawakan (Caribbean Arawakan) languages.
References
Arawakan languages
Indigenous languages of the Caribbean
Languages of Trinidad and Tobago
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