Amblong is an

Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...

or dialect spoken on inland southeastern

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Island in

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, in the village of Amblong. The language is probably endangered; children do not tend to learn it.

Names

The alternate names for Amblong are Varavara and Aje.

Classification

Amblong is generally classified as a language, but has also been tentatively classified as a dialect of the proposed South-Central Santo language along with Ande and Narango.

Selected vocabulary

The list below is a selected sample of words in Amblong:

References

Espiritu Santo languages Languages of Vanuatu Definitely endangered languages {{SOceanic-lang-stub