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Bima language
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<p>The Bima language, or Bimanese , is an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of <a href="/facts/Sumbawa/YWcHge32">Sumbawa</a> Island, <a href="/facts/Indonesia/vQnWU3IW">Indonesia</a>, which it shares with speakers of the <a href="/facts/Sumbawa_language/zBWkjdkD">Sumbawa language</a>. Bima territory includes the Sanggar Peninsula, where the extinct Papuan language <a href="/facts/Tambora_language/PSTNUybY">Tambora</a> was once spoken. <i>Bima</i> is an exonym; the autochthonous name for the territory is <i>Mbojo</i> and the language is referred to as <i>Nggahi Mbojo</i>. There are over half a million Bima speakers. Neither the Bima nor the Sumbawa people have alphabets of their own for they use the alphabets of the <a href="/facts/Bugis_language/BDuU29NQ">Bugis</a> and the <a href="/facts/Malay_language/2T6pPtgv">Malay language</a> indifferently. </p>