Sumbawa language
Not to be confused with Sumba languages.
| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| Basa Semawa | |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | unknown (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
smw |
| Glottolog |
sumb1241[2] |
Sumbawa (Sumbawarese) is the language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with Bima. It is closely related to the languages of adjacent Lombok and Bali; indeed, it is the easternmost Austronesian language in the south of Indonesia that is not part of the Central Malayo-Polynesian Sprachbund. Neither the Bima nor the Sumbawa people have alphabets of their own for they use the alphabets of the Bugis and the Malay language indifferently.[3]
References
- ↑ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sumbawa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ James Cowles Prichard (1874). Researches into the Physical History of Mankind Volume 5: Containing Researches Into the History of the Oceanic and of the American Nations. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. ASIN B0041T3N9G.
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