Bima language
Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Bima language (Bantu).
The Bima language, or Bimanese (Bima: Nggahi Mbojo, Indonesian: Bahasa Bima), is an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of the Sumbawa language. Bima territory includes the Sanggar Peninsula, where the extinct Papuan language Tambora was once spoken. Bima is an exonym; the autochthonous name for the territory is Mbojo and the language is referred to as Nggahi Mbojo. There are over half a million Bima speakers. Neither the Bima nor the Sumbawa people have alphabets of their own for they use the alphabets of the Bugis and the Malay language indifferently.[2]
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Bima | |
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Nggahi Mbojo | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Sumbawa |
Ethnicity | Bimanese |
Native speakers | (500,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Austronesian
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Latin, Lontara script (Mbojo variant) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bhp |
Glottolog | bima1247 |
ELP | Bima |
Regions where Bima is the majority language Regions where Bima is a significant minority language |
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