Subtiaba language
| Subtiaba | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nicaragua |
| Ethnicity | 5,000 (1981)[1] |
| Extinct | between 1909[2] and 1981[1] |
|
Oto-Mangue
| |
| 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 | 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
References
- 1 2 Subtiaba at Ethnologue (10th ed., 1984). Note: Data may come from the 9th edition (1978).
- ↑
- Lehmann, Walter (1911), Zentral-Amerika (I), Berlin: D. Reimer.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Subtiaba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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
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