sumbanese
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An Austronesian language or dialect continuum spoken in eastern Sumba.
Example Sentences
- "However, fasting as a prescribed ritual act is unknown to the Sumbanese. The other day I asked a young Sumbanese, who was a graduate of a three-year primary school, but not yet a church member, what was meant in the reading book by ..."
- "Indeed, a profound ambivalence is expressed in stories about both European traders and the Bimanese, as in this one, collected by Kruyt in Weyewa in 1920: In the old days, the Sumbanese were friends with the "white foreigners" and the ..."
- "Many ritual-speech representations of Dutch presence on the island that have been preserved have a gendered character to them in which a Sumbanese is depicted in a female role. The voice of the Dutchman typically does not appear anywhere in the song; [...]"
- "A third missionary, C. de Bruijn, was sent to work more specifically among the Sumbanese, but in his long period of duty (1892–1927) he also concentrated on the Sawunese in Kambaniru. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a ..."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Sumban (alternative)