| 释义 |
Mangue, n.2 and a. Now hist.
Brit. |ˈmaŋg(w)eɪ|, U.S. |ˈmɑŋˌg(w)eɪ|
Plural -s, unchanged
Forms: 18– Mangue, 19– Mangué
[‹ Spanish Mangue, adjective (1842 in a work title designating the language), further etymology uncertain.]
A. n.
1. A member of a Central American people formerly inhabiting the west coast of Nicaragua, closely related to the Chorotega of the Nicoya peninsula of north-western Costa Rica.
1876Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 8 142 The Spaniards..came in contact first with the southern section of the Chorotegas, or Mangues, as they were also called. 1890D. G. Brinton Races & Peoples 266 On the shores of Lake Managua..were the Mangues, a people of some cultivation, acquainted with a form of hieroglyphic or picture writing, very skilful in pottery, and agricultural in habits. 1921Amer. Anthropologist 23 318 At the time of the Spanish conquest they were divided into four geographical groups consisting of..the Chiapanecs..the Choluteca..the Mangue in the region between Leon, Managua, and the Pacific in Nicaragua, and..the Orotiñans. 1976World Archaeology 8 116 The clearest cases of actual migration are{ddd}Chiapanec and Mangue from somewhere west (c. A.D. 900). 1999L. W. Field Grimace of Macho Ratón i. 49 The Mangue, who, like their cultured neighbors.., also produced fine hieroglyphic books on parchment and lived in prosperous, socially stratified towns.
2. The Oto-Manguean language formerly spoken by the Mangues.
Also known or further classified as Dirian, Nagranda, Chorotega, and Orotiña.
1886Amer. Naturalist 20 572 The Mangue is the mother tongue, from which the Chiapanecan of Chiapas branched off. 1911C. Thomas & J. R. Swanton Indian Langs. Mexico & Central Amer. 77 Mangue.., a Chiapanecan dialect, was the most northwesterly tribe of the series. 1976C. R. Rensch in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. 163 Chiapanec-Mangue: Chiapanec, Mangue (both extinct).
B. adj. Of or designating the Mangues or their language.
1876Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 8 143, I was able to collect material sufficient to convince myself and others of the identity of this Mangue or Chorotegan idiom with the Chapanecan language in Mexico. 1900Science 4 May 713/1 The Mangues, speak the Mangué language, belonging to the Chiapanecan family. 1964Amer. Antiq. 29 500/2 It was probably the work of the pre-Columbian Mangue Indians. 1979L. Campbell in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 970 The Mangue migration to Nicaragua took place after 600 A.D. from Chiapas. 1997L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. 347/1 Their Central American Linguistic Area includes the Chibchan, Misumalpan, Mangue, and Subtiaba languages. |