Subtiaba is anextinctOto-Manguean language which was spoken on the Pacific slope ofNicaragua, especially in the Subtiaba district ofLeón.Edward Sapir established a connection betweenSubtiaba and Tlapanec. When Lehmann wrote about it in 1909 it was already very endangered or moribund.

The name "Subtiaba" may be ofNahuatl origin, from the roots xoctli ("black snail") and atl ("water").^[4]

Lexical comparison fromNative American Language Net:^[5]

• Tlapanecan languages

• Campbell, Lyle (1979): "Middle American Languages" enThe 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.

• Subtiaba, at Summer Institute of Linguistics
• OLAC resources in and about the Subtiaba language

• Languages of Nicaragua
• Mesoamerican languages
• Oto-Manguean languages
• Extinct languages of North America
• Languages extinct in the 20th century

• Language articles citing Ethnologue 25
• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Articles containing Subtiaba-language text
• CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)