AMBAE, WEST ( OPA, Nduindui, Duindui )

Spoken by 4,500 people on West Ambae (Leper's) Island, Vanuatu.
Linguistic Lineage for Ambae, West
Vanuatu

Tulu tiutangaroa hokinia hika.
'Tamamai lolo taetae, a hinamu u kokona.
Keu tiutangaroa kwara a tangaloi rana domi mavaki-ning"o,
rana hungu tavutimu, i ningo a Hung"we Lakua,
rana vai na domimu lo varamana
ne taritarisa hokinia hinea aira lolo taetae ramo toko vai.
Ko bete kamai hinaka hika karang"wa huri na rani hika.
Ko domindomi koro lakwa-kami nomai vakasileana
hokinia i kami keu domindomi koro lakwara
hinea rau vakasile vohovohoi-kami.
Ko hatu tiraki-kami tilo hala na sinasina huira,
vae ko kwiri-bimbi-kami ti Setano.'
(Huri i ning"o a Hung"we Lakua,
i ningo kaheko ku hang"o huiraana koro na kinau savia,
vake a karekarea savia a nomu kaheko vaki tuai a gwereki tikei.)
Amen.

Note: (") following a letter means there is a macron of that letter.

Source: "A BUKU KOKONA; A Leo Harikiana Karang"wa lo leo nona ngwera, The New Testament in West Ambae (1984)
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl - E-mail WKuhl44238@aol.com

Another version

Source: "Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa’a and Ulawa, Solomon Islands" by Walter G. Ivens, M.A., Washington, 1918.
(The LORD'S PRAYER in Twenty-four Languages as used in the DIOCESE OF MELANESIA among the Islands of the South Pacific, pp. 155-156.) Printed at the Melanesian Mission Press, British Solomon Islands. 1926.
http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/lords_prayer1926.html
Contributed by Wolfgang Kuhl - E-mail WKuhl44238@aol.com

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