Sumba–Hawu languages explained

Sumba–Hawu
Region:	Indonesia
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam3:	Central–Eastern
Fam4:	Sumba–Flores
Child1:	Hawu–Dhao
Child2:	Sumba
Glotto:	sumb1242
Glottorefname:	Sumba–Hawu

The Sumba–Hawu languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages, spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

The most widely spoken Sumba–Hawu language is Kambera,^[1] with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.^[2]

The Hawu language of Savu Island 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)^[3] found convincing evidence for linking Kambera (representing the Sumba languages) with Hawu.

• Sumba–Hawu
  • Hawu–Dhao
    • Hawu
    • Dhao
  • Sumba languages^[4]
    • Central–East Sumbanese
      • East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster)
      • Mamboru
      • Central Sumbanese
        • Anakalangu
        • Wanukaka
        • Ponduk
        • Baliledu
    • Wejewa–Lamboya
    • Kodi–Gaura

External links

• Sumba–Hawu at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019).

Notes and References

1. Book: Klamer, Marian . 2005 . Kambera . Adelaar, Karl Alexander . Himmelmann, Nikolaus . The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar . London . Routledge.
2. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/xbr "Kambera"
3. Blust . Robert . Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup? . Oceanic Linguistics . 47 . 1 . 2008 . 45–113 . 10.1353/ol.0.0006 . 20172340 . 144311741 .
4. Asplund, Leif (2010). The Languages of Sumba. Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang.