Sumbawa language should not be confused with Sumba languages.
| Sumbawa | |
| Nativename: | basa Semawa |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Sumbawa |
| Speakers: | 300,000 |
| Date: | 1989 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Malayo-Sumbawan (?) |
| Fam4: | Bali–Sasak |
| Script: | Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant) |
| Iso3: | smw |
| Glotto: | sumb1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Sumbawa |
| Map: | Sumbawa language distribution.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Sumbawa language spoken in Sumbawa and Lombok (only spoken by a minority): |
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.[1]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |