Sumbawa language

Sumbawa
Sumbawa
basa Semawa
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumbawa
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 1989)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan (?) Bali–Sasak Sumbawa; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smw
Glottolog	sumb1241
	Sumbawa language is spoken in Sumbawa and Lombok (only spoken by a minority): Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population or as their mother language Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population, but also concurrently by a large number of speakers of other languages Sumbawa is a minority language

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]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t̪	t͡ʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative		f	s			h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Open		a

/i, u/ can also have allophones of [ɪ, ʊ].^[3]^[4]

References

^ 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.

[e18-1] Sumbawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] 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.

[3] Sumarsono, Nadera & Made; Sunaryono, Basuki (1986). Morfologi dan sintaksis Bahasa Sumbawa. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.

[4] Shiohara, Asako (2006). スンバワ語の文法 [A Grammar of Sumbawa]. University of Tokyo.

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