Lamboya or Laboya is an
Austronesian language
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spoken on
Sumba
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,
Indonesia
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. The population figure may include
Gaura
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, which ''Ethnologue'' counts as a dialect of both Lamboya and Kodi.
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Sumba languages
Languages of Indonesia
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