Bima language

The Bima language, or Bimanese (Bima: Nggahi Mbojo, Indonesian: Bahasa Bima), is an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of the Sumbawa language. Bima territory includes the Sanggar Peninsula, where the extinct Papuan language Tambora was once spoken. Bima is an exonym; the autochthonous name for the territory is Mbojo and the language is referred to as Nggahi Mbojo. There are over half a million Bima speakers. Neither the Bima nor the Sumbawa people have alphabets of their own for they use the alphabets of the Bugis and the Malay language indifferently.

Not to be confused with Bima language (Bantu).
Bima
Nggahi Mbojo
Aksara Mbojo in Bima (Mbojo) script
Native toIndonesia
RegionSumbawa
EthnicityBimanese
Native speakers
(500,000 cited 1989)
Austronesian
Dialects
  • Kolo
  • Sangar (Sanggar)
  • Toloweri
  • Bima
  • Mbojo
Latin, Lontara script (Mbojo variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3bhp
Glottologbima1247
ELPBima
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