Sumba–Hawu languages

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The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages, spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is Kambera,{{cite book |last=Klamer |first=Marian |year=2005 |chapter=Kambera |editor=Adelaar, Karl Alexander |editor2=Himmelmann, Nikolaus |title=The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar |location=London |publisher=Routledge}} with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/xbr "Kambera"] at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).

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–Hawu languages are all closely related. Blust (2008){{cite journal |last=Blust |first=Robert |title=Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup? |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=47 |issue=1 |year=2008 |pages=45–113 |doi=10.1353/ol.0.0006 |jstor=20172340 |s2cid=144311741 }} found convincing evidence for linking Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with Hawu.

Sumba–Hawu
Hawu–Dhao
Hawu
Dhao
Sumba languagesAsplund, Leif (2010). [https://www.academia.edu/6964026 The Languages of Sumba.] Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.
Central–East Sumbanese
East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
Mamboru
Central Sumbanese
Anakalangu
Wanukaka
Ponduk
Baliledu
Wejewa–Lamboya
Kodi–Gaura

References

External links

[https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/sumba-hawu Sumba–Hawu] at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).

Category:Languages of Indonesia