Sumbawa Language
Sumbawa
Nusa Tenggara Barat
Indonesia
erni@sumbawa.comlu.com
Welcome
Singen kaji Erniyawanti Adam, tau biasa kelek kaji Erni. kaji kapmy photoeranak kaji pang Samawa tanggal 10 bulan empat ten balu pulu empat. kaleng SD jangka SMA kaji basakola pang Samawa.

Benru dapat masa kulia, kaji meranto lako Makassar kulia pang UNHAS kaleng ten 2002 jangka ten 2006. Samawa, yanansi nusa ode pang ano siup Indonesia. Tau pang samawa berape kenang basa Semawa. jangka ano ta, basa Samawa masi ya kenang berape leng tau pang Semawa. kele nan luk, tode sekola jarangmo berape kewa basa Semawa leng pang Sekola ya ajar kenang Bahasa Indonesia kaleng ya bawa jangka bale berape kewa bahasa Indonesia. sebenar, bahasa Samawa adasi sistem tulisan na yanansi "satera Jontal" ade pasang ke "satera Lontara" ade ya kenang leng tau pang Makassar atawa Bugis. tapi langan rea nomonda tau kenang ke ampo nonda tau ajar, jarang benar tau Samawa ade to nulis kenang Satera Jontal ta.

My name is Erniyawanti Adam, please call me Erni. I was Born in Sumbawa on April 10, 1984. I spent my childhood and my school time from the Elementary School to my secondary school in Sumbawa. Then I took my undergraduate in Makasssar South Sulawesi from 2002 to 2006. Samawa/ Sumbawa is a small island in the eastern part of sumbawa. The communities occupying this island mostly speak in Sumbawa language. However, students nowadays rarely speak this language because they are exposed to Bahasa Indonesia at school, and they speak Bahasa Indonesia at home as well. in fact, Bahasa Sumbawa has its own writing system called "satera Jontal" which is similar to "Satera Lontara" used in Makassar and Bugis. However, due to the exposure of the latin writing system (not to mention that "Satera Jontal" has never been taught formally, and it hasn't been passed down). The satera Jontal writing system is likely to fall out of use entirely.
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I'm working on the Bahasa Sumbawa Dictionary.
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Sumbawa
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Mataram is the capital of the Nusa Tenggara Barat.
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