Asumbuo language

Asumboa
Asubuo
Native to	Solomon Islands
Region	Utupua
Native speakers	(10 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Temotu Utupua Asumboa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aua
Glottolog	asum1237
ELP	Asumboa
Asumbuo is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Asumbuo (Asubuo in local orthography; Asumboa or Asuboa in some sources) is a nearly extinct language spoken on the island of Utupua, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands.^[2]

Affiliation

Like the two other languages of Utupua (Tanimbili and Amba), Asumbuo belongs to the Temotu subgroup of the Oceanic family, itself part of the Austronesian phylum.

Language vitality

With only about 10 speakers,^[1] Asumbuo is a highly endangered language. Together with its neighbour Tanimbili, it is currently being replaced by Amba (or Nebao), the main language of Utupua.

References

1. Asumboa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Tryon (1994).

Bibliography

• Tryon, Darrell (1994). "Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands". In Tom Dutton; Darrell Tryon (eds.). Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–648. ISBN 978-3-11-088309-1..