Sumba languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

| name = Sumba

| region = Indonesia

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Central–Eastern

| fam4 = Sumba–Flores

| fam5 = Sumba–Hawu

| glotto = sumb1243

| glottorefname = Sumba

| ancestor =

| glottoname =

| notes =

| map = Sumba Topography.png

| mapcaption = 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.{{cite journal |author=Lansing, J. S. |author2=Cox, M. P. |author3=Downey, S. S. |author4=Gabler, B. M. |author5=Hallmark, B. |author6=Karafet, T. M. |author7=Norquest, P. |author8=Schoenfelder, J. W. |author9=Sudoyo, H. |author10=Watkins, J. C. |author11=Hammer, M. F. |year=2007 |title=Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia. |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=104 |issue=41 |pages=16022–16026 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0704451104|pmid=17913885 |pmc=2042155 |bibcode=2007PNAS..10416022L |doi-access=free }}

Asplund, Leif (2010). [https://www.academia.edu/6964026 The Languages of Sumba.] Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang. They are closely related to the Hawu-Dhao languages.{{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 |jstor=20172340 |doi=10.1353/ol.0.0006 |s2cid=144311741 }}