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, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...
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
Indigenous peoples in Trinidad and Tobago
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