Sumbawa language

Not to be confused with Sumba languages.

Sumbawa
basa Semawa
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumbawa
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 1989)
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

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.

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].