Sumbawa language
Sumbawa (basa Semawa; Indonesian: bahasa Sumbawa) or Sumbawarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of Bima. It is closely related to the languages of adjacent Lombok and Bali; indeed, it is the easternmost Austronesian language in the south of Indonesia that is not part of the Central Malayo-Polynesian Sprachbund. The Sumbawa write their language with their own native script commonly known in their homeland as Satera Jontal and they also use the Latin script.
| Sumbawa | |
|---|---|
| basa Semawa | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | (300,000 cited 1989) |
| Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | smw |
| Glottolog | sumb1241 |
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