'''Tambora''' is thea poorly attested non-([[AustronesianPapuan languages|AustronesianPapuan]]) and included in branch ([[West Papuan languages|West Papuan]])languagespoken ofby the [[Tambora culture|Tamborans]] people of central [[Sumbawa]], in what is now [[Indonesia]], that was made extinct by the [[1815 eruption of Mount Tambora|1815 eruption]] of [[Mount Tambora]]. It was the westernmost known Papuan language<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Donohue|first=Mark|date=2008-01-03|title=The Papuan Language of Tambora|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/228921|journal=Oceanic Linguistics|volume=46|issue=2|pages=520–537|doi=10.1353/ol.2008.0014|s2cid=26310439|issn=1527-9421}}</ref> and was relatively unusual among such languages in being the language of a maritime trading state, though contemporary Papuan trading states were also found off [[Halmahera]] in [[Ternate]] and [[Tidore]].<ref>{{citation |first = Peter |last = Bellwood |title = First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia |year = 2017 |access-date = 2022-12-29 |isbn = 978-1-119-25154-5 |location = Hoboken |publisher = John Wiley & Sons |pages = 211–212 |oclc = 976434720 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SmBGDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 |language = en}}</ref>
