Subtiaba is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
Oto-Manguean
The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the ...
language which was spoken on the Pacific slope of
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...
, especially in the Subtiaba district of
León.
Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American Jewish anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.
Sa ...
established a connection between
Subtiaba and Tlapanec. When Lehmann wrote about it in 1909 it was already very endangered or moribund.
Lexical comparison
Lexical comparison from ''Native American Language Net'':
Native American Language Net
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See also
*Tlapanecan languages
The Supanecan or Tlapanecan languages are Tlapanec (Me'phaa) of Guerrero and the extinct Subtiaba of Nicaragua. The family was recognized in 1925 by Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir (; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American Jewish an ...
References
* Campbell, Lyle
Lyle Richard Campbell (born October 22, 1942) is an American scholar and linguist known for his studies of Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous American languages, especially those of Central America, and on historical linguistics in ...
(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.
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External links
Subtiaba
at Summer Institute of Linguistics
OLAC resources in and about the Subtiaba language
{{Oto-Manguean languages
Languages of Nicaragua
Mesoamerican languages
Oto-Manguean languages
Extinct languages of North America
Languages extinct in the 20th century