Ambala is a

Sambalic language The Sambalic languages are a part of the Central Luzon language family spoken by the Sambals, an ethnolinguistic group on the western coastal areas of Central Luzon and the Zambales mountain ranges. Demographics The largest Sambalic languages a ...

spoken in the

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. It has more than 2,000 speakers and is spoken within Aeta communities in the Zambal

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of Subic, San Marcelino, and Castillejos; in the

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of Olongapo; and in Dinalupihan, Bataan. Reid (1994) reports the following Ambala locations, from SIL word lists: *Maliwacat, Cabalan, Olongapo, Zambales *Batong Kalyo (Pili), San Marcelino, Zambales Himes (2012) also collected Ambala data from the following locations: *Pastolan,

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Metropolitan Authority *Gordon Heights, Olongapo City

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Endangered Austronesian languages Sambalic languages Aeta languages Languages of Zambales Languages of Bataan {{philippine-lang-stub

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