Sumbawa (basa Semawa; Indonesian: bahasa Sumbawa) or Sumbawarese is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with speakers of Bima.

It is closely related to the languages of adjacent Lombok and Bali; indeed, it is the easternmost Austronesian language in the south of Indonesia that is not part of the Central Malayo-Polynesian Sprachbund.

The Sumbawa write their language with their own native script commonly known in their homeland as Satera Jontal and they also use the Latin script.

[2] /i, u/ can also have allophones of [ɪ, ʊ].

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