The documentation of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Eastern Indonesia

This collection is an audio-visual documentation of Ambel. Ambel is an endangered language with around 1600 speakers. It is spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago in West Papua province, Indonesia. Genetically it is an Austronesian language, of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea branch. However, like many of the Austronesian languages of Papua, it shows evidence of prolonged and intense contact with non-Austronesian languages, such as a complex prosodic system, clause-final negation, and many words with a non-Austronesian origin.

Arnold, Laura. 2017. The documentation of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Eastern Indonesia. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0377. Accessed on DATE.

If audio or visual material is used from this deposit (including photographs), the user is also required to acknowledge the individual speakers by name.