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Sumbawa language

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Not to be confused with Sumba languages.
Sumbawa
Basa Semawa
RegionSumbawa
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3smw
Glottologsumb1241

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. The Sumbawa write their language natively with a script commonly known in their homeland as Satera Jontal.[2]

References

  1. ^ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf
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