Sumba languages

The Sumba languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia. They are closely related to the Hawu-Dhao languages.

Classification

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

• Sumba
• Central–East Sumbanese
• East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
• Mamboru
• Central Sumbanese
• Anakalangu
• Wanukaka
• Baliledu-Buawa
• Wejewa–Lamboya
• Wejewa
• Lamboya
• Kodi–Garo
• Kodi
• Garo

References

Further reading

External links

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