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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related
Austronesian languages , spoken in
East Nusa Tenggara ,
Indonesia .
The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is
Kambera ,
[1] with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of
Sumba Island .
[2]
The
Hawu language of
Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian
substratum , but perhaps not to a greater extent that other
languages of central and eastern Flores , such as
Sika , or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian in general.
Classification The Sumba–Hawu languages are all closely related. Blust (2008)
[3] found convincing evidence for linking
Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with
Hawu .
References
^ Klamer, Marian (2005). "Kambera". In Adelaar, Karl Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus (eds.). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar . London: Routledge.
^
"Kambera" at
Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).
^ 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 .
^ Asplund, Leif (2010).
The Languages of Sumba.
External links
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
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