Amba
Aba
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Utupua
Native speakers	(590 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Temotu Utupua Amba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	utp
Glottolog	amba1266
Amba is not endangered according to the classification system of theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Amba (also known asAba,Nembao orNebao) is the main language spoken on the island ofUtupua, in the easternmost province of theSolomon Islands.^[2]

The speaker population callstheir own language[aᵐba] (withprenasalised[ᵐb]). This name may be renderedAmba orAba depending on spelling conventions, which have not been fixed yet for these languages.

Speakers of neighbouringAsumboa designate the Amba language as[neᵐbao]. This form, which may be spelledNembao orNebao, has sometimes been used by foreigners as another name for the Amba language.

• Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton;Darrell Tryon (eds.).Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–648.ISBN 978-3-11-088309-1..

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