Weyewa
Facts
- Language: Weyewa
- Alternate names: Wewewa, Wejewa, Waijewa, Wajewa, Wewjewa, Waidjewa, West Sumbanese, Veveva, West-Soembasch
- Language code: wew
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Lembata, Flores-Sumba-Hawu, Sumba-Hawu, Sumba, Wewewa-Laboya
- Number of speakers: >240,000
- Vulnerability: risk
- Script: Latin script.
More information:
Christian, traditional religion.
While the dialect varieties listed are considered dialects of Weyewa, they are associated with groups of people who have different traditional cultures, clan systems, and sociolinguistics contexts. (I Wayan Arka, personal communication, November 2013)