Amblong language

Amblong
Varavara, Aje
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Espiritu Santo
Native speakers	300 (2015) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu North Vanuatu Espiritu Santo Amblong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alm
Glottolog	ambl1237
ELP	Varavara
Amblong is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Amblong is an Oceanic language or dialect ^[2] spoken on inland southeastern Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu, in the village of Amblong. ^{[2] [3]}

The language is probably endangered; children do not tend to learn it. ^[4]

Names

The alternate names for Amblong are Varavara and Aje. ^[5]

Classification

Amblong is generally classified as a language, ^{[5] [6]} but has also been tentatively classified as a dialect of the proposed South-Central Santo language along with Ande and Narango. ^[2]

Selected vocabulary

The list below is a selected sample of words in Amblong: ^[7]

Amblong	English
moyi	mosquito
mo-tol	three
oragʷe	he

References

1. "(PDF) The Languages of Vanuatu: Unity and Diversity". ResearchGate.
2. Lynch, John; Crowley, Terry. "Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography". p. 56.
3. Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. Internet Archive. London : Routledge. 2007. p. 471. ISBN   978-0-7007-1197-0.
4. "Did you know Varavara is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
5. "Glottolog 5.1 - Amblong". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
6. "Amblong | Ethnologue Free".
7. Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T. ) (1976). New Hebrides languages : an internal classification. Internet Archive. Canberra : Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-85883-152-0.