Sumba–Flores languages

The Sumba–Flores languages, which correspond to the traditional "Bima–Sumba" subgroup minus Bima, are a proposed group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on and around the islands of Sumba and western–central Flores in the Lesser Sundas.  The main languages are Manggarai, which has half a million speakers on the western third of Flores, and Kambera, with a quarter million speakers on the eastern half of Sumba Island. 

The Hawu language of Savu Island is suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, but perhaps not to any greater extent than the languages of central and eastern Flores, such as Sika, or indeed of Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general. 

Classification
Blust (2008) finds moderate support for linking the languages of western and central Flores with Sumba–Hawu. 

Sumba–Flores
Sumba–Hawu
Hawu–Dhao
Sumba
Western Flores
Manggarai–Rembong: Komodo, Manggarai, Riung, Rembong, Rajong, Kepo', Wae Rana
Central Flores–Palu'e
Palu'e
Central Flores
Ende–Lio: a dialect cluster of Ende, Li'o, Nage, Ke'o
Ngada: Ngad'a, Rongga, So'a (dialect cluster)

See also
Sumba languages
Central Flores languages

References

Further reading
Gasser, Emily.  2014.  Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba.  In Jeffrey Connor-Linton and Luke Wander Amoroso (eds.),  Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation, 63-78.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 

External links
LexiRumah (part of the Lesser Sunda linguistic databases)
Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands

Category:Languages of Indonesia
Category:Sumba languages
Category:Flores Island (Indonesia)