Fanbyak is a minor language of Ambrym Island, Vanuatu.
| Fanbyak | |
|---|---|
| Fanbak, Orkon | |
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Ambrym Island |
Native speakers | 95 (2015)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fnb |
| Glottolog | orko1234 Orkon-Fanbak |
| ELP | Orkon |
Name
editFanbyak 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
edit- ^ Fanbyak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Change request documentation for fbk.
External links
edit- 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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