Amba language (Solomon Islands)

{{Short description|One of the three Oceanic languages of Utupua (Solomon Islands)}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Amba

|altname=

|nativename=Aba

|states=Solomon Islands

|region=Utupua

|speakers=590

|date=1999

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Oceanic

|fam4=Temotu

|fam5=Utupua

|iso3=utp

|glotto=amba1266

|glottorefname=Amba (Solomon Islands)

|map = Lang Status 99-NE.svg

|mapcaption = {{center|{{small|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.Tryon (1994).

Name

The speaker population calls their own language {{IPA|utp|aᵐba|}} (with prenasalised {{IPA|utp|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 {{IPA|aua|neᵐbao|}}. This form, which may be spelled Nembao or Nebao, has sometimes been used by foreigners as another name for the Amba language.

References

Bibliography

{{Cite book

| publisher = Mouton de Gruyter

| isbn = 978-3-11-088309-1

| pages = 611–648

| editor = Tom Dutton

| editor2 = Darrell Tryon

| editor2-link = Darrell Tryon

| last = Tryon

| first = Darrell

| title = Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World

| chapter = Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands

| location = Berlin

| date = 1994

| ref = DT1994

}}.

Category:Languages of the Solomon Islands

Category:Temotu languages