Sumba–Hawu languages

The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages, spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

Sumba–Hawu
Geographic distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Sumba–Hawu
Subdivisions	Hawu–Dhao Sumba
Glottolog	sumb1242

The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is Kambera,^[1] with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.^[2]

The Hawu language of Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, but perhaps not to a greater extent that other languages of central and eastern Flores, such as Sika, or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian in general.

Classification

The Sumba–Hawu languages are all closely related. Blust (2008)^[3] found convincing evidence for linking Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with Hawu.

• Hawu–Dhao
  • Hawu
  • Dhao
• Sumba languages^[4]
  • Central–East Sumbanese
    • East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
    • Mamboru
    • Central Sumbanese: Anakalangu, Wanukaka, Ponduk, Baliledu
  • Wejewa–Lamboya
  • Kodi–Gaura

References

1. Klamer, Marian (2005). "Kambera". In Adelaar, Karl Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus (eds.). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
2. "Kambera" at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).
3. 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.
4. Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.

External links

• Sumba–Hawu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).