Amba language (Solomon Islands)
One of the three Oceanic languages of Utupua (Solomon Islands)
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Aba | |
Native to | Solomon Islands |
Region | Utupua |
Native speakers | (590 cited 1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | utp |
Glottolog | amba1266 |
Amba is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Amba (also known as Aba, Nembao or Nebao) is the main language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.[2]
Name
[edit]The speaker population calls their own language [aᵐba] (with prenasalised [ᵐb]). This name may be rendered Amba or Aba depending on spelling conventions, which have not been fixed yet for these languages.
Speakers of neighbouring Asumboa designate the Amba language as [neᵐbao]. This form, which may be spelled Nembao or Nebao, has sometimes been used by foreigners as another name for the Amba language.
References
[edit]- ^ Amba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Tryon (1994).
Bibliography
[edit]- Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–648. ISBN 978-3-11-088309-1..
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