Bima (language)

Bima
Spoken in	Sumbawa ( Indonesia )
speaker	500,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL , 1989)
Linguistic ; classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Central Malayo Polynesian languages Bima Sumba Bima (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bhp

Bima is a language spoken in the eastern half of Sumbawa . It is one of the central-east Malayo-Polynesian languages of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian languages . It is closely related to the Sumba languages .

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