Sumbawa language
| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| Basa Semawa | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | smw |
| Glottolog | sumb1241 |
Sumbawa (Sumbawan: Basa Semawa, Indonesian: Bahasa Sumbawa) or Sumbawarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of 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. The Sumbawa write their language with their own native script commonly known in their homeland as Satera Jontal and they also use the Latin script.[2]
References
- ^ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf
