Sumbawa language
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Sumbawa | |
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Basa Semawa | |
Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Latin, Satera Jontal | |
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 Latin.[2]
References
- ^ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf
Malayo-Sumbawan |
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Northwest Sumatra– Barrier Islands |
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Lampungic |
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Celebic |
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Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (over 700 languages) |
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Unclassified |