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.
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.
- ↑ 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.
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