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Name:
Sabu
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Hawu; Havunese; Savu; Sawu; Sawunese; Savunese
Spoken in:
Indonesia
Number of speakers:
110,000 (1997). 15,000 to 25,000 outside of Sabu (Wurm and Hattori 1981)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
hvn
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Austronesian
Parent Subgroup:
Bima-Sumba; Bimba-Sumba-Gruppe (bisu)
Child Dialects:
Liae (hvn-lia)
Seba; Heba (hvn-seb)
Timu; Dimu (hvn-tim)
Raijua; Raidjua (hvn-rai)
Mesara; Mehara (hvn-mes)
Map of Sabu
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