Sumba languages

Sumba
Geographic distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Sumba
Subdivisions	Savu Sumba Island
Glottolog	`sumb1242`^[1]

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.

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)^[2] found full support for linking Sumba with Hawu, the most divergent language.

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sumba–Hawu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Robert Blust, 2009. "Is there a Bima–Sumba subgroup?" In Oceanic Linguistics

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