| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| basa Semawa | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| 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]
- ^ 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.