Ambae

Ambae, in its western form also called Duidui or Nduindui, is an Oceanic language spoken on the volcanic island of Ambae, known to Europeans as Aoba or Lepers' Island, in northern Vanuatu. The island's name goes back to a reconstructed Proto-North-Central Vanuatu form omba, and neighbouring Mota calls both island and language Opa.

West Ambae has the principal dialect Duidui together with Walaha, while the north, east and south of the island use the related but distinct East Ambae language. The first Europeans to record a sighting of Ambae were the ships of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros's Spanish expedition in 1606. Later missionary contact, above all through the Melanesian Mission, gradually gave the island's languages a written form.