The Sumba–Flores languages, which correspond to the traditional "Bima–Sumba" subgroup minus Bima, are a proposed group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on and around the islands of Sumba and western–central Flores in the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia. The main languages are Manggarai, which has half a million speakers on the western third of Flores, and Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island.
The Hawu language of Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, but perhaps not to any greater extent than the languages of central and eastern Flores, such as Sika, or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.
Classification Blust (2008) finds moderate support for linking the languages of western and central Flores with Sumba–Hawu.
Sumba–Flores Sumba–Hawu Hawu–Dhao Sumba languages (see) Western Flores Manggarai–Rembong: Komodo, Manggarai, Manus, Riung, Rembong, Rajong, Kepo', Wae Rana Central Flores–Paluʼe Paluʼe Central Flores Ende–Lio: a dialect cluster of Ende, Lio, Nage, Kéo Ngada: Namut–Nginamanu, Ngadʼa, Rongga, Soʼa (dialect cluster)
See also
Sumba languages Central Flores languages
References
Further reading Gasser, Emily. 2014. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba. In Jeffrey Connor-Linton and Luke Wander Amoroso (eds.), Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation, 63-78. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
External links LexiRumah (part of the Lesser Sunda linguistic databases) Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands