Bima language
Not to be confused with Bima language (Bantu).
| Bima | |
|---|---|
| Nggahi Mbojo | |
| Region | Sumbawa |
Native speakers | unknown (500,000 cited 1989)[1] |
| Dialects |
Kolo
Sangar (Sanggar)
Toloweri
Bima
Mbojo
|
| Mbojo script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bhp |
| Glottolog |
bima1247[2] |
The Bima language, or Bimanese, is the language of the eastern half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with 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." It is closely related to the languages of Sumba Island to the southeast. 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.[3]
References
- ↑ Bima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bima". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ James Cowles Prichard (1874). Researches into the Physical History of Mankind Volume 5: Containing Researches Into the History of the Oceanic and of the American Nations. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. ASIN B0041T3N9G.
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of open access recordings of Bima from a 2005 language documentation class, as well as some recordings from Robert Blust.
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