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Lamboya
Native to Indonesia
Region Sumba Island
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 1997) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lmy
Glottolog lamb1273
ELP Laboya

Lamboya or Laboya is an Austronesian language spoken on Sumba, Indonesia. The population figure may include Gaura, which Ethnologue counts as a dialect of both Lamboya and Kodi.

References

  1. ^ Lamboya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading

  • Verdizade, Allahverdi (2019). Selected Topics in the Phonology and Morphosyntax of Laboya: A Field Study (MA thesis). Stockholm University.