SOUTHEAST AMBRYM LANGUAGE

Southeast Ambrym
Southeast Ambrym
Taveak
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Ambrym Island
Native speakers	3,700 (2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Southeast Ambrym; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tvk
Glottolog	sout2859
	Southeast Ambrym is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Southeast Ambrym, Vatlongos, or Taveak, is a language of Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. It is closely related to Paamese.

Phonology

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t	k
Stop	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Fricative		v	s	x	h
Lateral			l
Trill			r

^ Southeast Ambrym at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Crowley, Terry (2002). Southeast Ambrym. In John Lynch and Malcolm Ross and Terry Crowley (eds.), The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 660–670.

Eleanor Ridge. "Vatlongos, Southeast Ambrym (Vanuatu)" (PDF). Language Contexts.

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Southeast Ambrym
Taveak
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Ambrym Island
Native speakers	3,700 (2001)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Southeast Ambrym
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tvk`
Glottolog	`sout2859`
Southeast Ambrym is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger