Summary of the deposit Ahamb is one of over 120 vernacular languages spoken in the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. It has around 950 speakers and is primarily spoken on the small (<0.5 km2) Ahamb Island, off the southern coast of Malekula, the second largest island in Vanuatu. The language is endangered because of pressure from Bislama, migration due to climate change, and other environmental and socioeconomic factors. Prior to 2017, Ahamb had very few written resources. This archive deposit includes the data collected during the Ahamb Language Documentation Project (2017-2020). The project has so far resulted in a standardised orthography, an audio-visual corpus, of which around 22 hours of speech have been annotated (> 93,000 words), a grammatical description, an Ahamb-English-Bislama wordlist and some literacy materials.

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