Sumba languages

Sumba
Sumba
Geographic; distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Sumba–Hawu Sumba; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	sumb1243
	The Indonesian island of Sumba, where the Sumba languages are spoken

The Sumba languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia.^[1]^[2] They are closely related to the Hawu–Dhao languages.^[3]

Classification

A preliminary internal classification by Asplund (2010) recognizes three branches of the Sumba languages:^[2]^[4]

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

^ Lansing, J. S.; Cox, M. P.; Downey, S. S.; Gabler, B. M.; Hallmark, B.; Karafet, T. M.; Norquest, P.; Schoenfelder, J. W.; Sudoyo, H.; Watkins, J. C.; Hammer, M. F. (2007). "Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (41): 16022–16026. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10416022L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704451104. PMC 2042155. PMID 17913885.
^ a b Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.
^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.
^ Verdizade, Allahverdi (2019). Selected topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Laboya: A field study (MA thesis). Stockholm University.

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Sumba
Geographic distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Sumba–Hawu Sumba
Glottolog	`sumb1243`
The Indonesian island of Sumba, where the Sumba languages are spoken