Fanbak language

Fanbak
Orkon
Native to Vanuatu
Region Ambrym Island
Native speakers
100 (2015)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 fnb
Glottolog orko1234  (Orkon)[2]

Fanbak is a minor language of Ambrym Island, Vanuatu.

Lynch and Crowley (2001) call the language "Orkon". While the residents of the village of Orkon are reported to have spoken a different language before moving to the village of Fanbak and giving it up for the Fanbak language, the language reported by Lynch & Crowley was actually Fanbak. Fanbak village has been abandoned, with residents now living among speakers of North Ambrym.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Change request documentation for fbk.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Orkon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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