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 ...

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 The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South America. They are distinguished by the first person pronominal prefix ''ta-,'' as opposed ...

(Caribbean Arawakan) languages.

References

Arawakan languages Indigenous languages of the Caribbean Languages of Trinidad and Tobago {{Arawakan-lang-stub