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The river flows along the northern area of Sumba with predominantly tropical savanna climate (designated as As in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [8] The annual average temperature in the area is 27 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 31 °C, and the coldest is June, at 24 °C. [9]
Sumba (Petjo: Soemba-eiland; Indonesian: pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba, Hubba, Suba, or Zuba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory.
Kodi is a Sumba language of Indonesia.The population figure may include Gaura, which Ethnologue counts as a dialect of both the Lamboya and Kodi languages. [2] Kodi is an Austronesian language that is mainly spoken in Nusa Tenggara Timur province, the western part of the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
Sumba people have a rich and relatively diverse oral folklore. Preserved traditional festivals, which includes horse race, bull sacrifices, complex funerary rituals and fights with spears. Pasola is the cultural feast of the Sumba people and is considered one of Indonesia's cultural richness, which is very rare and unique to the Sumba people. [19]
The Sumba–Flores languages, which correspond to the traditional "Bima–Sumba" subgroup minus Bima, are a proposed group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on and around the islands of Sumba and western–central Flores in the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
Waingapu is the largest town in the eastern half of Sumba island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It is the capital town of the East Sumba Regency ( Sumba Timur ). Not to be mistaken for Wainyapu , a traditional village in the western end of the island.
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The rapid growth of the Marapu belief system on Sumba Island is vividly narrated in the Hikayat Putri Kalepe within Bo' Sangaji Kai (an ancient manuscript of the Bima Kingdom). According to the story, a noble family from Kalepe (a southern region of Bima) fled to Sumba Island after being ostracized for opposing the will of a ruler in Dana Mbojo ...