Sumba languages

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Sumba
Geographic
distribution		Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologsumb1243
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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.[1][2] They are closely related to the Hawu–Dhao languages.[3]

Classification[]

A preliminary internal classification by Asplund (2010) recognizes three branches of the Sumba languages:[2][4]

  • Central–East Sumbanese
    • East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
    • Mamboru
    • Central Sumbanese: Anakalangu, Wanukaka, Ponduk, Baliledu
  • Wejewa–Lamboya
  • Kodi–Gaura
    • Kodi
    • Gaura

References[]

  1. ^ Lansing, J. S., Cox, M. P., Downey, S. S., Gabler, B. M., Hallmark, B., Karafet, T. M., Norquest, P., Schoenfelder, J. W., Sudoyo, H., Watkins, J. C., and Hammer, M. F. (2007). "Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (41): 16022–16026. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10416022L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704451104. PMC 2042155. PMID 17913885.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. ^ a b Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.
  3. ^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.
  4. ^ Verdizade, Allahverdi (2019). Selected topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Laboya: A field study (MA thesis). Stockholm University.

External links[]

  • Sumba at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).


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