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 to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | smw |
| Glottolog | sumb1241 |
Phonology edit
Consonants edit
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | 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 edit
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
References edit
- ^ Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sumarsono, Nadera & Made; Sunaryono, Basuki (1986). Morfologi dan sintaksis Bahasa Sumbawa. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
- ^ Shiohara, Asako (2006). スンバワ語の文法 [A Grammar of Sumbawa]. University of Tokyo.
