East Ambae (also known as Ambae, Northeast Ambae, Northeast Ambae, Omba, Oba, Aoba, Walurigi, Lolovoli, and Northeast Aoba) is an Oceanic language spoken in the north, east, and south of Ambae, Vanuatu. The data in this article will concern itself with the Lolovoli dialect.

North-East Ambae distinguishes 5 vowels and 16 consonants, shown in the tables below.

In Ambae there are four different pronominal forms, one set of free forms, independent pronouns and three sets of bound forms, subject proclitics, object enclitics and possessive suffixes. All sets of pronominals distinguish between singular, dual and plural and between inclusive and exclusive in the first person. Independent pronouns are preceded by the personal article when the head of a noun phrase.

The subject proclitic is the first part of a verb phrase and can attach to an aspect, mood, negative particle or verb head. Dual forms cliticise to the marker ru. In Lolovoli, no= is applied when cliticised in 1st person exclusive singular.

Go=ni

2SG.S=IRR

inu

drink