This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Sumbawa corpus (Shiohara 2022), originally published in November 2022 with version 2211 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Sumbawa (indigenous designation: Samawa) [sumb1241] is a Western Austronesian language spoken in the western part of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. Administratively, the area belongs to two districts, namely Sumbawa district (Kabupaten Sumbawa) and West Sumbawa district (Kabupaten Sumbawa Barat), in the province of West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat). Sumbawa belongs to the Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family (Adelaar 2005; Mbete 1990).

The texts in this corpus were collected by Asako Shiohara in 1996 and 1997. They were recorded in the small town of Empang and in Desa Bantu, a village close to Empang. Among the several dialects of the Sumbawa language, the dialect spoken in these two locations is classified as the Sumbawa Besar dialect, which is distributed across a large part of the western Sumbawa-speaking area.

The texts were annotated for Multi-CAST by Shiohara between 2018 and 2022, with RefIND annotations added in 2022 by Tai Hong.

Citation
Shiohara, Asako. 2022. Multi-CAST Sumbawa. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Adelaar, Alexander. 2005. Malayo-Sumbawan. Oceanic Linguistics 44(2), 357–388.
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
Mbete, Aron Meko. 1990. Rekonstruksi protobahasa Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa [A reconstruction of Proto-Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa]. Jakarta: University of Indonesia.