Amara
Facts
- Language: Amara
- Alternate names: Longa, Bibling
- Language code: aie
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage, Southwest New Britain linkage
- Number of speakers: <231
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script: Latin script, used since 1980s.
More information:
Autie dialect no longer used. Christian.
"... [T]here are two alternate names for the Amara language, Longa and Bibling. Though the Amara people recognize those names, they reported that they prefer their language to be called Amara." (Carter, et al. 2012)