Ambala language

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Ambala
Ambala Ayta
Native to Philippines
Region Zambales, Olongapo, Dinalupihan
Native speakers
(1,700 cited 1986) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 abc
Glottolog amba1267

Ambala is a Sambalic language spoken in the Philippines. It has more than 2,000 speakers [2] [ full citation needed ] and is spoken within Aeta communities in the Zambal municipalities of Subic, San Marcelino, and Castillejos; in the city of Olongapo; and in Dinalupihan, Bataan. [1]

Reid (1994) [3] reports the following Ambala locations, from SIL word lists:

Himes (2012) [4] also collected Ambala data from the following locations:

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References

  1. 1 2 Ambala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Ramos 2004
  3. Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (1): 37–72. doi:10.2307/3623000. hdl: 10125/32986 . JSTOR   3623000.
  4. Himes, Ronald S. (2012). "The Central Luzon Group of Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 51 (2): 490–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0013. JSTOR   23321866. S2CID   143589926.