Sumba languages
| Sumba | |
|---|---|
| Sumba-Hawu | |
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | sumb1242[1] |
The Sumba languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages which belong to the larger linkage of the 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 convincing evidence for linking Sumba with Hawu, the most divergent language.
- Savu languages (See)
- Hawu
- Dhao
- Sumba Island
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sumba–Hawu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: 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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