East Ambae language
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East Ambae | ||
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Spoken in: | Ambae, Vanuatu | |
Total speakers: | ~5,000 (1991) | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Central-Eastern Remote North and Central Vanuatu NE Vanuatu-Banks Islands East Vanuatu East Ambae |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | omb | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
East Ambae (also known as Omba, Oba, Aoba, Walurigi, Northeast Aoba, and Northeast Ambae) is an Oceanic language spoken on Ambae, Vanuatu.
[edit] References
- Ivens, W. G. (1940). "A Grammar of the Language of Lobaha, Lepers' Island, New Hebrides, Melanesia". Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 10 (2): 345–363.
- Hyslop, Catriona. (2001). The Lolovoli Dialect of the North-East Ambae Language, Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics, Canberra. PL 515.