Sumba–Flores languages

Sumba–Flores
Sumba–Flores
Geographic; distribution	Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (Central) Bima–Lembata? Sumba–Flores; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Sumba–Hawu; Western Flores;
Language codes
Glottolog	flor1240

The Sumba–Flores languages, which correspond to the traditional "Bima–Sumba" subgroup minus Bima, are a proposed group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on and around the islands of Sumba and western–central Flores in the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia. The main languages are Manggarai, which has half a million speakers on the western third of Flores, and Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.

The Hawu language of Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, but perhaps not to any greater extent than the languages of central and eastern Flores, such as Sika, or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.

Classification

Blust (2008)^[1] finds moderate support for linking the languages of western and central Flores with Sumba–Hawu.

Sumba–Flores
- Sumba–Hawu
  - Hawu–Dhao
  - Sumba languages (see)
- Western Flores
  - Manggarai–Rembong: Komodo, Manggarai, Riung, Rembong, Rajong, Kepo', Wae Rana
  - Central Flores–Paluʼe
    - Paluʼe
    - Central Flores
      - Ende–Lio: a dialect cluster of Ende, Lio, Nage, Kéo
      - Ngada: Ngadʼa, Rongga, Soʼa (dialect cluster)

^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340.