Amba language (Solomon Islands)
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.
| Amba | |
|---|---|
| Aba | |
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Region | Utupua Island |
Native speakers | 590 (1999)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | utp |
| Glottolog | amba1266[2] |
Name
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
- Amba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Amba (Solomon Islands)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official language | |||||||||||||
| Lingua franca | |||||||||||||
| Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.