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Subtiaba|suːbtɪˈɑːbə|
[The name of a village, (San Juan Bautista de) Subtiaba, earlier Sutiaba, (see quot. 1891): perh. of Nahuatl origin.]
a. (A member of) an Indian people of western Nicaragua.
b. The Tlapanec language of this people (no longer spoken), formerly considered to have Hokan affinities but now regarded as Otomanguean. Formerly also Subtiˈaban. Also Comb., as Subtiaba-Tlapanec, a group of related central American Indian languages, including Subtiaba.
[1878S. Habel in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. No. 269. 24, I proceeded to Leon. Here I collected as many words and sentences as I could of the Raburochi language, spoken in the neighboring village of Sutiaba.] 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 159 The Subtiabas are inhabitants of the valley of that name near the modern city of Leon in Nicaragua. 1911Thomas & Swanton Indian Languages of Mexico & Central Amer. 77 Mangue..was the most northwesterly tribe of the series, the area occupied extending..northwards from the territory of the Subtiaba (Squier's Nagrandans) ‘along the Gulf of Fonseca’... Subtiaban (Synonyms: Nagrandan, Maribi). This language..forms a distinct family. 1925E. Sapir in Amer. Anthropol. XXVII. 402 Subtiaba, a language now spoken by only a small number of Indians in a village near Léon, on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua... For a long time the language was believed to be an isolated one..But it appeared later that it is very closely related to Tlappanec or Yopi, a language spoken in the state of Guerrero in Southern Mexico. 1935P. Radin in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics VIII. 45/1 Lehmann succeeded in demonstrating quite clearly that Tlappanec was closely related to the Subtiaba language of Nicaragua. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 100 The third constituent of Hokan-Coahuiltecan, Subtiaba-Tlappanec. 1978Language LIV. 507 Both papers are crucially concerned with a particular language known in two dialectal forms, Subtiaba (extinct, of Nicaragua) and Tlapanec (still spoken in Guerrero, Mexico). |