Subtiaba language

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.

Subtiaba
Native to	Nicaragua
Ethnicity	20,000 (2005)[1]-49,000 (2006)[2]
Extinct	In the 1920s[3]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Tlapanecan Subtiaba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sut
Glottolog	subt1250

The name "Subtiaba" may be of Nahuatl origin, from the roots xoctli ("black snail") and atl ("water").^[4]

Lexical comparison

Lexical comparison from Native American Language Net:^[5]

English	Subtiaba	Tlapanec
One	i·mba	mba1
Two	a·pu·	a3hma3
Three	a·su	a2cu1
Four	axku	a2kho3
Man	ra·bu	ša3bo3
Woman	ra·bagu·	a'3go3
Dog	ru·wa	šu3wã1
Sun	ahka	a3kha'3
Moon	uku	gő'3
Water	i·lu	i2ya2

See also

• Tlapanecan languages

References

1. Subtiaba language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. "8. Xiu | Territorio Indígena y Gobernanza".
3. Subtiaba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
4. "8. Xiu | Territorio Indígena y Gobernanza".
5. Native American Language Net

• 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