Kambera | |
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East Sumbanese | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Lesser Sunda Islands |
Native speakers | 240,000 (2009)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xbr |
Glottolog | kamb1299 |
Kambera, also known as East Sumbanese, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern half of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Kambera is a member of Bima-Sumba subgrouping within Central Malayo-Polynesian inside Malayo-Polynesian.[2] The island of Sumba, located in Eastern Indonesia, has an area of 11,243.78 km2.[3] The name Kambera comes from a traditional region which is close to a town in Waingapu. Because of export trades which concentrated in Waingapu in the 19th century, the language of the Kambera region has become the bridging language in eastern Sumba.