Kambera
bahasa Kambera
Kambera is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, by about 240 thousand people.
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Kambera, also known as East Sumbanese, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern half of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Kambera is a member of Bima-Sumba subgrouping within Central Malayo-Polynesian inside Malayo-Polynesian. The island of Sumba, located in Eastern Indonesia, has an area of 11,243.78 km2. The name Kambera comes from a traditional region which is close to the town of Waingapu in East Sumba Regency. Because of export trades which concentrated in Waingapu in the 19th century, the language of the Kambera region has become the bridging language in eastern Sumba.
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Words in Kambera
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ina | |
| woman | kawini | |
| person | tau | |
| water | wai | |
| rain | urangu | |
| horse | njara | |
| hear | rongu | |
| give | wua | |
| rice | uhu | |
| money | ndui |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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