Bima language

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Name (Latin)
Bima language
Other forms of name
nne Bimanese language
Nggahi Mbojo language
See Also From tracing topical name
Malayan languages
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Indonesia
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q2796873
Library of congress: sh 85014075
Sources of Information
  • Ethnologue, via WWW, June 30, 2016(Bima. A language of Indonesia. ISO 639-3: bhp. Alternate Names: Bimanese. Location: Nusa Tenggara Barat Province; eastern third of Sumbawa island, east of the isthmus; northeast, Sangeang and Banta islands; Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Komodo island area. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata)
  • Omniglot website, June 30, 2016(Bima (Nggahi Mbojo). Bima, or Bimanese, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern half of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia by about 500,000 people. It is closely related to the languages of Sumba Island. The Bima(nese) script is used to write Bima, and is related to the Buginese script. This script has been used since the 14th century, and was used to write books and royal records in the Bima Kingdom. During the 17th century, when the Bima people became Muslim, they started using Malay written with the Arabic script)
  • Austronesian basic v ocabulary database, via WWW, June 30, 2016:Languages > Bima (Bima. Classification: Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Central Malayo-Polynesian:Bima-Sumba)
  • The world atlas of language structures online, June 30, 2016:Languages (Bima. Spoken in: Indonesia. Alternative names: Ruhlen: Bima; Other: Komodo; Ethnologue: Bima)
  • Wikipedia, June 30, 2016:Bima language (The Bima language, or Bimanese, is an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of the Sumbawa language. "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)
Wikipedia description:

Bima (endonym: Nggahi Mbojo [ᵑɡa.hi ᵐbo.d͡ʒo]), or Bimanese, is an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia by the Bimanese people, 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.

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