Fanbak language
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Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
| Fanbyak | |
|---|---|
| Fanbak, Orkon | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Ambrym Island |
Native speakers | 95 (2015)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fnb |
| Glottolog | orko1234Orkon-Fanbak |
| ELP | Orkon |
Fanbyakis a minor language ofAmbrym Island,Vanuatu.
Name[edit]
Fanbyak takes its name from the village of the same name, where it used to be spoken. Fanbyak village has been abandoned, with residents now living among speakers ofNorth Ambrym.[2]
Lynch and Crowley (2001) called the language "Orkon". However, it appears that Orkon, spoken in the Orkon village, really referred to alect(either a dialect or a separate language) distinct from Fanbak. Nothing is known about Orkon proper, which is now extinct.
References[edit]
- ^FanbyakatEthnologue(25th ed., 2022)
- ^Change request documentation forfbk.
External links[edit]
- Fanbyak DoReCo corpuscompiled by Michael Franjieh. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and - for some texts - time-aligned morphological annotations.
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