{{Short description|Extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad}} {{Expand Portuguese|Língua shebayo|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox language | name = Shebayo | altname = Saluaio | region = Trinidad | states = Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Venezuela ? | ref = <ref name=":0" /> | familycolor = arawakan | fam1 = Arawakan | fam2 = Northern | fam3 = Ta-Arawakan | iso3 = none | glotto = sheb1234 | map = Languages_of_the_Caribbean.png | mapcaption = {{legend|00a2e8|Shebayo}} | era = attested 1633 }}
'''Shebayo''' (Saluaio<ref name=":1" />) is an extinct Arawakan language of Trinidad<ref name="google">{{cite book |author=Aĭkhenvalʹd, A.Iu. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrUe5BBAIJQC |title=Language Contact in Amazonia |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199257850 |page=284 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526104309/https://books.google.com/books?id=zrUe5BBAIJQC |archive-date=2024-05-26 |url-status=live |accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref> and perhaps the Venezuelan coast, or in the Guianas according to Loukotka, who incorrectly classified it as Cariban.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |url=https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Aloukotka-1968-classification/Loukotka_1968_ClassSAIndLang_001_278.pdf |title=Classification of South American Indian Languages |date=1968 |isbn=9780879031077 |editor-last=Wilbert |editor-first=Johannes |edition=4th |location=Latin American Center, UCLA |pages=239 |lccn=}}</ref> It is only attested by a few words in a 1633 book by Joannes de Laet.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Laet |first1=Johannes : de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLF8OiAonjIC |title=Nouus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae occidentalis libri 18. Authore Ioanne de Laet Antuerp. nouis tabulis geographicis et variis animantium, plantarum fructuumque iconibus illustrati |last2=Dusent |first2=Cornelis Claessen |date=1633 |publisher=apud Elzevirios |pages=642 |language=la}}</ref> Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it with the Ta-Arawakan (Caribbean Arawakan) languages.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Amazonian languages |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57893-6 |editor-last=Dixon |editor-first=Robert M. W. |edition=Digitally printed 1st pbk. version |series=Cambridge language surveys |location=Cambridge; New York |pages=69 |editor-last2=Aĭkhenvalʹd |editor-first2=A. I︠U︡}}</ref>
== Vocabulary == The following is a compilation of all Shebayo vocabularies collected by Laet (1633),<ref name=":0" /> de Goeje (1939)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Goeje |first1=De |last2=H |first2=C. |date=1939 |title=Nouvel examen des langues des Antilles. |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/jsa_0037-9174_1939_num_31_1_1984 |journal=Journal de la société des américanistes |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–120 |doi=10.3406/jsa.1939.1984}}</ref> and Taylor (1977).<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Douglas MacRae |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtBgwgEACAAJ |title=Languages of the West Indies |date=1977 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0-8018-1729-8 |language=en}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+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 |}
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{{Arawakan languages}}{{Languages of Trinidad and Tobago}}{{Languages of Guyana}} Category:Arawakan languages Category:Indigenous languages of the Caribbean Category:Languages of Trinidad and Tobago Category:Indigenous peoples in Trinidad and Tobago
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