sumbanese
Collocations
4ADJ.
old, other, unknown, young
VERB + SUMBANESE
asked
SUMBANESE + NOUN
day, friends, w
PREP.
in, in
Definitions
adj
Of or relating to Sumba or its people or language.
noun
A person belonging to the native Austronesian people of the island of Sumba.
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 ...
name
An Austronesian language or dialect continuum spoken in eastern Sumba.
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3However, 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 w
WiktionaryIndeed, 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 w
WiktionaryMany 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 Dutchm
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