Sumbawa | |
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basa Semawa | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | smw |
Glottolog | sumb1241 |
Sumbawa (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 the Latin script.[2]
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