Amba | |
Nativename: | Aba |
States: | Solomon Islands |
Region: | Utupua |
Speakers: | 590 |
Date: | 1999 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam3: | Oceanic |
Fam4: | Temotu |
Fam5: | Utupua |
Iso3: | utp |
Glotto: | amba1266 |
Glottorefname: | Amba (Solomon Islands) |
Map: | Lang Status 99-NE.svg |
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.[1]
The speaker population calls their own language pronounced as /aᵐba/ (with prenasalised pronounced as /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 pronounced as /neᵐbao/. This form, which may be spelled Nembao or Nebao, has sometimes been used by foreigners as another name for the Amba language.