The Sumba-Hawu languages are a group of closely related Austronesian languages spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, part of the Sumba-Flores subgroup within Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. The family divides into a Hawu-Dhao group and the Sumba languages, whose most widely spoken member is Kambera, with roughly 250,000 speakers on eastern Sumba; a 2008 study by Robert Blust established the close relationship between Kambera and Hawu that justifies treating them as one subgroup.
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Partially Attested
Speaker Countcount is for Kambera, the family's largest member; total family speaker count not given RegionEast Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia 1 Sources
1. Sumba-Hawu languages - Wikipedia
Wikipedia, Introduction
spoken in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Wikipedia, Speaker information section
a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island
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