Sumba languages
Not to be confused with Sumbawa language.
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| Geographic distribution: | Indonesia |
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| Glottolog: | sumb1242[1] |
The Sumba languages are a group of clearly related Central Malayo-Polynesian languages.
The most widely spoken Sumba language is Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.
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
The Sumba languages are all closely related. Blust (2009)[2] found full support for linking Sumba with Hawu, the most divergent language.
- Savu languages (See)
- Hawu
- Dhao
- Sumba Island
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sumba–Hawu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Robert Blust, 2009. "Is there a Bima–Sumba subgroup?" In Oceanic Linguistics
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