Sumba languages

Sumba
Geographic
distribution
Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologsumb1243
The Indonesian island of Sumba, where the Sumba languages are spoken

The Sumba languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia.[1][2] They are closely related to the Hawu–Dhao languages.[3]

  1. ^ Lansing, J. S.; Cox, M. P.; Downey, S. S.; Gabler, B. M.; Hallmark, B.; Karafet, T. M.; Norquest, P.; Schoenfelder, J. W.; Sudoyo, H.; Watkins, J. C.; Hammer, M. F. (2007). "Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (41): 16022–16026. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10416022L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704451104. PMC 2042155. PMID 17913885.
  2. ^ Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.
  3. ^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.

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