Wejewa language

Wejewa (Weyewa, Wewewa) is an Austronesian language spoken on Sumba, Indonesia.

Wejewa
West Sumbanese
Native toIndonesia
RegionSumba Island
Native speakers
65,000 (1997–2011)[1]
Dialects
  • Weyewa proper
  • Loura
  • Tana Righu
  • Ve Luri
  • Wai Bangga
  • Loliina
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wew – Wejewa
lur – Laura
Glottologweje1237[2]

References
  1. Wejewa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Laura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wewewa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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