The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related
Austronesian languages, spoken in
East Nusa Tenggara
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,
Indonesia
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The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is
Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of
Sumba Island.
The
Hawu language of
Savu Island
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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) found convincing evidence for linking
Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with
Hawu.
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Hawu–Dhao
**
Hawu
**
Dhao
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Sumba languages[Asplund, Leif (2010)]
''The Languages of Sumba.''
Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.
**Central–East Sumbanese
***East Sumbanese:
Kambera (dialect cluster)
***
Mamboru
***Central Sumbanese:
Anakalangu,
Wanukaka,
Ponduk,
Baliledu
**
Wejewa–
Lamboya
**
Kodi
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Gaura
References
External links
Sumba–Hawuat ''
Ethnologue'' (22nd ed., 2019).
Languages of Indonesia
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