Sumba languages
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Not to be confused with Sumbawa language.
| Sumba | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian |
| Subdivisions: |
Savu
Sumba Island
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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.[1]
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.
[edit] Classification
The Sumba languages are all closely related. Blust (2009)[2] found full support for linking Sumba with Hawu, the most divergent language, and a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[3] found 99% support for the same.
- Savu languages (See)
- Sumba Island
[edit] References
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumbawa_Island#Demographics
- ^ Robert Blust, 2009. "Is there a Bima-Sumba subgroup?" In Oceanic Linguistics
- ^ Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
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