Sumbawa
basa Semawa
Native toIndonesia
RegionSumbawa
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1989)[1]
Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3smw
Glottologsumb1241

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
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 ɔ
Open a

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

References

  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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