Notes on the Mangue: An Extinct Dialect Formerly Spoken in Nicaragua

· 1899

Professor of Ethnology and Archæology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. _Sources._ Nothing whatever has been published about the Mangue language, except a list of ninety-five words, by Mr. E. G. Squier in his work, “Nicaragua, its People, Scenery and Monuments.” Whence he obtained this short vocabulary he does not state; but it is evidently the work of some one only slightly acquainted with the character of the language. I do not make any use of it in the present notes, except in a few instances for comparison.…

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