Fanbak_language

Fanbak language

Fanbak language

Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu

Fanbyak is a minor language of Ambrym Island, Vanuatu.

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Name

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 of North Ambrym.[2]

Lynch and Crowley (2001) called the language "Orkon". However, it appears that Orkon, spoken in the Orkon village, really referred to a lect (either a dialect or a separate language) distinct from Fanbak. Nothing is known about Orkon proper, which is now extinct.

References

  1. [1]
    Fanbyak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Change request documentation for fbk.
  • Fanbyak DoReCo corpus compiled 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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