Bima (language)
Bima | ||
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Spoken in |
Sumbawa ( Indonesia ) | |
speaker | 500,000 (Indonesia) ( SIL , 1989) | |
Linguistic classification |
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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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bima at Ethnologue (17th edition, 2013)