Sumba–Hawu languages

Sumba–Hawu
Sumba–Hawu
Geographic; distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Sumba–Hawu; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Hawu–Dhao; Sumba;
Glottolog	sumb1242

The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages, spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is Kambera,^[1] with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.^[2]

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[edit]

The Sumba–Hawu languages are all closely related. Blust (2008)^[3] found convincing evidence for linking Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with Hawu.

Sumba–Hawu
- Hawu–Dhao
  - Hawu
  - Dhao
- Sumba languages^[4]
  - Central–East Sumbanese
    - East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
    - Mamboru
    - Central Sumbanese
      - Anakalangu
      - Wanukaka
      - Ponduk
      - Baliledu
  - Wejewa–Lamboya
  - Kodi–Gaura

References[edit]

^ Klamer, Marian (2005). "Kambera". In Adelaar, Karl Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus (eds.). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
^ "Kambera" at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).
^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.
^ Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.

External links[edit]

Sumba–Hawu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).

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[1] Klamer, Marian (2005). "Kambera". In Adelaar, Karl Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus (eds.). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.

[2] "Kambera" at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).

[3] Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.

[4] Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.

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