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Ambai
Native toIndonesia
RegionAmbai Islands
Native speakers
10,100 (2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
      • Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
        • South Halmahera–West New Guinea
          • Cenderawasih Bay
            • Yapen
              • Central–Western
                • Ambai
Language codes
ISO 639-3amk
Glottologamba1265

The Ambai language is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesian New Guinea (Papua Province), mostly on the Ambai Islands as well as the southern part of Yapen Island.[2] The number of speakers is estimated to be 10,000. Dialects are Randawaya, Ambai (Wadapi-Laut), and Manawi.[3]

  1. ^ Ambai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "AMBAI" (PDF). PapuaWeb. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 17, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

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