The language is traditionally classified in a Central Maluku branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages; more recent classifications have placed it with the Sula–Buru languages.[2] Although Ambelau island is only 20 km away from the much larger Buru island (population 135,000), the Ambelau language is rather different from all languages and dialects of Buru. The preservation of the language was also unaffected by the fact that Ambelau people compose only half of the Ambelau island population, and the communication with the Bugis and Javanese people composing the other half usually occurs in the official language of the country, Indonesian. The Ambelau language has no dialectal variation; so the Ambelau community on Buru island speaks identical language to that used on Ambelau. The language has no writing system.[3][4]
The most detailed study of Ambelau language was conducted in the 1980s by Charles E. Grimes and Barbara Dix Grimes – Australian missionaries and ethnographers, active members of SIL International (they should not be confused with Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Charles' parents, also known Australian ethnographers).[5][6][7]
ReferencesEdit
^Ambelau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abCharles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
^ abEthnologue: Languages of the World. "Ambelau: A language of Indonesia (Maluku)".
^(PDF). Center for Coastal and Marine Resources Studies, Bogor Agricultural University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
^"Publications by Barbara Dix Grimes". SIL International.
^"Publications by Charles E. Grimes". SIL International.
^. Bethel Grove Bible Church. Archived from the original on 2010-10-19.
September 01, 2023
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