Fanbak language

Fanbyak is a minor language of Ambrym Island, Vanuatu.

Fanbyak
Fanbak, Orkon
Native to	Vanuatu
Region	Ambrym Island
Native speakers	95 (2015)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Southern Oceanic North-Central Vanuatu Central Vanuatu Fanbyak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fnb
Glottolog	orko1234  Orkon-Fanbak
ELP	Orkon

Name

Fanbyak 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

1. Fanbyak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Change request documentation for fbk.

External links

• 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.