Sumbawa language
| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| Sumbawan | |
| Basa Samawa ᨅᨔ ᨔᨆᨓ | |
| Pronunciation | [basa saˈma.wa] |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumbawa |
| Ethnicity | Sumbawa people |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989) |
Austronesian
| |
| Dialects | |
| Latin (Sumbawa Latin alphabet) Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa |
| 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 (/suːmˈbɑːwə/ soom-BAH-wə; Basa Samawa, Satera Jontal script: ᨅᨔ ᨔᨆᨓ, IPA: [basa saˈma.wa]; Indonesian: Bahasa Sumbawa [baˈha.sa sʊmˈbawa]) or Sumbawan 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.