Sumbawa language

{{Short description|Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia}}

{{distinguish|Sumba languages}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sumbawa

|nativename={{lang|smw|basa Semawa}}

|states=Indonesia

|region=Sumbawa

|speakers=300,000

|date=1989

|ref = e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Malayo-Sumbawan (?)

|fam4=Bali–Sasak

|script= Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant)

|iso3=smw

|glotto=sumb1241

|glottorefname=Sumbawa

|map=Sumbawa language distribution.svg

|mapcaption= Sumbawa language is spoken in Sumbawa and Lombok (only spoken by a minority):

{{Legend | #0062FF |Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population or as their mother language}}

{{Legend striped|#0062FF |#74B4FF| Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population, but also concurrently by a large number of speakers of other languages

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{{Legend | #74B4FF | Sumbawa is a minority language }}

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Sumbawa ({{lang|smw|basa Semawa}}; {{langx|id|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.{{Cite web |last=Shiohara |first=Asako |title=The Satera Jontal Script in the Sumbawa District in Eastern Indonesia |url=http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224181401/http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/endangered-scripts-issea/asako_shiohara_paper.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-24 |access-date=2015-05-05 |via=Linguistic Dynamics Science Project}}