The Ambai language is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesian New Guinea (Papua Province), mostly on the Ambai Islands as well as the southern part of Yapen Island.
Dialects are Randawaya, Ambai (Wadapi-Laut), and Manawi.
[3] Ambai has 19 consonants and 6 vowels, shown on the tables below.
The following bound pronouns are obligatorily added as affixes to the verb to stand as the subject of the sentence.
Every verb in Ambai takes a subject, even if it is a 'dummy' third-person pronoun.