Sumbawa language
Not to be confused with Sumba languages.
| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| Basa Semawa | |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Latin, Satera Jontal | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
smw |
| Glottolog |
sumb1241[2] |
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.[3]
References
- ↑ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sumbawa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf
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