ISO 639-3 · smwsmw
Austronesian family
Sumbawa
Basa Samawa
Sumbawa is a language of the Malayo-Polynesian branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts about 300,000 speakers (1989). Wikidata describes it as “language spoken predominantly by the Sumbawa ethnic group native to the Sumbawa island in Indonesia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
smw- Glottocode
sumb1241- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6a Vigorous
- Centre point
- -8.72, 117.47
- Wikipedia
- 22 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
6aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sumbawa · Basa Samawa |
|---|---|
| Also called | Samawa, Sumbawa language |
| All speakers | 300,000 (1989) |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Sumbawa
The branches above Sumbawa, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · DevelopingsunSundaneseAustronesian · 32.4 m5 · Developing