The Bima language, or Bimanese, is the language of the eastern half of Sumbawa

Sumbawa

Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara....

 Island, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, which it shares with the Sumbawa language

Sumbawa language

Sumbawa is the language of the western half of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which it shares with Bima. It is closely related to the languages of adjacent Lombok and Bali; indeed, it is the westernmost language in the south of Indonesia that is not part of the Central Malayo-Polynesian Sprachbund....

. Bima territory includes the Sanggar Peninsula, where the extinct Papuan language Tambora

Tambora language

Tambora is the poorly attested non-Austronesian language of the Tambora culture of central Sumbawa, in what is now Indonesia, which was wiped out by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora...

 was once spoken. It is closely related to the languages of Sumba Island to the southeast. There are over half a million Bima speakers.