Sumbawa language

Not to be confused with Sumba languages.

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.^[2]

Sumbawa
basa Semawa
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumbawa
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan (?) Bali–Sasak Sumbawa
Writing system	Latin, Lontara script (Satera Jontal variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smw
Glottolog	sumb1241
Sumbawa language is spoken in Sumbawa and Lombok (only spoken by a minority):   Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population or as their mother language    Sumbawa is spoken by the majority of the population, but also concurrently by a large number of speakers of other languages    Sumbawa is a minority language

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t̪	t͡ʃ	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	g
Fricative		f	s			h
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

/i, u/ can also have allophones of [ɪ, ʊ].^[3][4]