Sumbawa language
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| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| 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 language is spoken in Sumbawa and Lombok (only spoken by a minority):
Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population or as their mother language
Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population, but also concurrently by a large number of speakers of other languages
Sumbawa is a minority language | |
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]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | g | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
/i, u/ can also have allophones of .[3][4]
References
- ^ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Shiohara, Asako. "The Satera Jontal Script in the Sumbawa District in Eastern Indonesia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2015-05-05 – via Linguistic Dynamics Science Project.
- ^ Sumarsono, Nadera & Made; Sunaryono, Basuki (1986). Morfologi dan sintaksis Bahasa Sumbawa. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ^ Shiohara, Asako (2006). スンバワ語の文法 . University of Tokyo.
