Sumbawa 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]

Sumbawa
basa Semawa
Native toIndonesia
RegionSumbawa
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1989)[1]
Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3smw
Glottologsumb1241

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p 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 [ɪ, ʊ].[3][4]

References

  1. Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 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.
  3. Sumarsono, Nadera & Made; Sunaryono, Basuki (1986). Morfologi dan sintaksis Bahasa Sumbawa. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
  4. Shiohara, Asako (2006). スンバワ語の文法 [A Grammar of Sumbawa]. University of Tokyo.
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