The Sumba languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family, spoken on Sumba, an island in eastern

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.Asplund, Leif (2010)
''The Languages of Sumba.''
Paper presented at the East Nusantara Conference in Kupang. They are closely related to the Hawu–Dhao languages.

Classification

A preliminary internal classification by Asplund (2010) recognizes three branches of the Sumba languages: *Central–East Sumbanese **East Sumbanese: Kambera (dialect cluster) ** Mamboru **Central Sumbanese: Anakalangu, Wanukaka, Ponduk, Baliledu *Wejewa–Lamboya ** Wejewa ** Lamboya *Kodi–Gaura **

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** Gaura

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Sumba
at '' Ethnologue'' (22nd ed., 2019). Languages of Indonesia Sumba–Hawu languages {{austronesian-lang-stub

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