Asumboa
Asubuo
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Utupua
Native speakers	(10 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Temotu Utupua Asumboa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aua
Glottolog	asum1237
ELP	Asumboa
Asumbuo is classified as Severely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Asumbuo (Asubuo in local orthography;Asumboa orAsuboa in some sources) is a nearly extinct language spoken on the island ofUtupua, in the easternmost province of theSolomon Islands.^[2]

Like the two other languages of Utupua (Tanimbili andAmba), Asumbuo belongs to theTemotu subgroup of theOceanic family, itself part of theAustronesian phylum.

With only about 10 speakers,^[1] Asumbuo is a highlyendangered language. Together with its neighbourTanimbili, it is currently beingreplaced byAmba (orNebao), the main language ofUtupua.

• 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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