Sumbanese

English Etymology From en Sumba -n- -ese. Adjective - Of or relating to Sumba or its people or language. Alternative forms en Sumban rare Noun * en chiefly in the plural A person belonging to the native Austronesian people of the island of Sumba. en Indonesia en 1952 The Bible Translator 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 ... en 1997 Janet Hoskins The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange Univ of California Press 9780520208926 37 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 ... en 1998 Joel C. Kuipers Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba Cambridge University Press 60 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; [...] en 2008 Jan Sihar Aritonang; Karel Adriaan Steenbrink A History of Christianity in Indonesia BRILL 9789004170261 322 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 ... Usage notes Proper noun An Austronesian language or dialect continuum spoken in eastern Sumba. en Kambera