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Amba
Aba
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Utupua
Native speakers	(590 cited 1999)
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 the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Amba (also known as Aba, Nembao/Nebao) is the main language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.

Name※

The speaker population calls their own language [aᵐba] (with prenasalised [ᵐb]). This name may be, rendered Amba or Aba depending on spelling conventions, "which have not been fixed yet for these languages."

Speakers of neighbouring Asumboa designate the Amba language as [neᵐbao]. This form, which may be spelled Nembao or Nebao, has sometimes been used by, foreigners as another name for the "Amba language."

References※

Bibliography※

• 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..