Sumba languages

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Not to be confused with Sumbawa language.

Sumba
Geographic distribution:	Indonesia
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Sumba
Subdivisions:	Savu Sumba Island

The Sumba languages are a group of clearly related Central Malayo-Polynesian languages.

The most widely spoken Sumba language is Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.^{[citation needed]}

The Hawu language of Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, but perhaps not to a greater extent that other languages of central and eastern Flores, such as Sika, or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian in general.

Classification

The Sumba languages are all closely related. Blust (2009)^[1] found full support for linking Sumba with Hawu, the most divergent language.

Savu languages (See)
Sumba Island
- Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster), Mamboru
- Wanukaka–Pondok
  - Anakalangu, Wanukaka
  - Pondok, Baliledo
- Wejewa–Kodi
  - Wejewa
  - Lamboya, Kodi, Gaura

References

↑ Robert Blust, 2009. "Is there a Bima–Sumba subgroup?" In Oceanic Linguistics

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