Ambai

AMK

threatened

Alternate Names: Ambai-Menawi

Dialects: Ambai (Wadapi-Laut), Manawi, Randawaya. Lexical similarity: 77% with Serui-Laut ,, 71% with Wandamen ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian

Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

South Halmahera-West New Guinea

West New Guinea

Cenderawasih Bay

Yapen

Central-Western

Demographics: 10,100 (2000).

Language Use: Children use Indonesian [ind].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Grammar. NT: 2010.

Typology: Serial verbs; complex directional demonstrative system.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Muslim, Christian.