Subtiaba language

Subtiaba
Native to	Nicaragua
Ethnicity	5,000 (1981)[1]
Extinct	between 1909[2] and 1981[1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Tlapanecan Subtiaba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sut
Glottolog	subt1250[3]

Subtiaba is an extinct Oto-Manguean language which was spoken on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua, especially in the Subtiaba district of León. Edward Sapir established a connection between Subtiaba and Tlapanec. When Lehmann wrote about it in 1909 it was already very endangered or moribund.

Lexical comparison

English	Sutiaba	Tlapanec
One	i·mba	mba^1
Two	a·pu·	a^3hma^3
Three	a·su	a^2cu^1
Four	axku	a^2kho^3
Man	ra·bu	ša^3bo^3
Woman	ra·bagu·	a'^3go^3
Dog	ru·wa	šu^3wã^1
Sun	ahka	a^3kha'^3
Moon	uku	gő'^3
Water	i·lu	i^2ya^2

See also

• Tlapanecan languages

References

1. Subtiaba at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
2. • Lehmann, Walter (1911), Zentral-Amerika (I), Berlin: D. Reimer.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Subtiaba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Campbell, Lyle (1979): "Middle American Languages" en The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment, Campbell, Lyle; & Mithun, Marianne (Eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 902–999.
• Sapir, Edward (1925). "The Hokan affinity of Subtiaba in Nicaragua". American Anthropologist (New Series) 27 (3,4): 402–435, 491–527. doi:10.1525/aa.1925.27.3.02a00040.
• Suárez, Jorge A. (1977). El tlapaneco como lengua Otomangue (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México.

External links

• Subtiaba, at Summer Institute of Linguistics
• OLAC resources in and about the Subtiaba language