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]

References