Subtiaba | |
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Native to | Nicaragua |
Ethnicity | 5,000 (1981) |
Extinct | between 1909 and 1981 |
Oto-Mangue
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | subt1250 |
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.