Kambera language

Kambera
Kambera
East Sumbanese
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Lesser Sunda Islands
Native speakers	240,000 (2009)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores ? Sumba–Hawu Sumba East Sumbanese Kambera; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xbr
Glottolog	kamb1299

Kambera, also known as East Sumbanese, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Kambera is a member of Bima-Sumba subgrouping within Central Malayo-Polynesian inside Malayo-Polynesian. The island of Sumba, located in Eastern Indonesia, has an area of 11,005.62 km². The name Kambera comes from a traditional region which is close to a town in Waingapu. Because of export trades which concentrated in Waingapu in the 19th century, the language of the Kambera region has become the bridging language in eastern Sumba.

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