Teni Ambemaribu

Ambemaribese ( Ambemaribese pronunciation: ), also known as Jianqese (: 譾溪話; : jian3qi1hho3) is a Hagyean language and the national language of Ambemaribu. Most people in Ambemaribu speak it as a first language as do some people of descent elsewhere.

Classification
The Ambemaribese language is the westernmost member of the Haegyean language family. Its distinctiveness from nearby Mijuan languages was already noted in 1708 by the Hokanese scholar Chen Li Jing. It is related to the Haegyemal languages of Sarigan, Nagara Dipa, Kamuhirian, Kendan, Kealakekua and Waeno, and is the only remnant of the Miju-Haegyean languages that were formerly spoken in eastern Matobo, eastern Tsongtiko and on the island of Nduri. There appears to be a influence or substratum in Ambemaribese  (Huang Li Wei, 1853).

Etymology
Ambemaribese is the demonym of Ambemaribu from which it is taken to refer to the people of Ambemaribu in addition to their language. Ambemaribu stands for "place of plenty shallow rivers". In Traditional, the country is called Jian3qi1 (譾溪; "shallow stream") and the language Jian3qi1hho3 (譾溪話; "shallow stream speech").

History
Ambemaribu was first settled by Polynesians from the Great Southern Ocean and from Barujaya. The migrations continued along the first millennium, as confirmed by linguistic researchers who showed the close relationship between the Ambemaribese language and Old Lidah Barujaya and Old Maragat languages of this period. Far later, circa 1000, the original Polynesian settlers in Ambemaribu mixed with the Matobwe and the Tsongtikese, amongst others. There is evidence that the predecessors of the Ambemaribese dialects first arrived in the southern stretch of the east coast of Ambemaribu.

Ambemaribese has a long history of ("oratory arts") and poetic histories and legends. The most well-known is the national epic, Tukannibesilah ("The Blacksmith"), about an Ambemaribese hero named "Ratahika" that traveled the Great Southern Ocean and received clients of distant nationalities and complex demands. It was transcribed in and reprinted for collections throughout Tiandi.

Geographic distribution
Ambemaribese is the principal language spoken in the island of Ambemaribu. It is also spoken by Ambemaribese communities in neighboring Matobo and Tsongtiko. Large expatriate communities speaking the language also exist in Hokan and Viet Quoc and, to a lesser extent, Bakusai and Hapcheon, Jeongmi.

Legal status
The dialect of Ambemaribese is considered the national language of Ambemaribu. It is one of the two official languages alongside Hokanese in the 1903 constitution. Ambemaribese is the language of instruction in all public schools through grade five for all subjects, and remains the language of instruction through high school for the subjects of history and of the Ambemaribese language.

Dialects
There are two principal dialects of Ambemaribu; Eastern (including ) and Western (including ), with the running down the spine of the island, the south being eastern, and the central plateau and much of the north (apart from the very tip) being western. They have about 70% (~2000 years) with the Bedrukileu dialect.

Eastern Ambemaribese
The Eastern dialects are: Additionally Mahabusi (40,000 speakers) is spoken in the metropolitan areas of Hyusan and Hapcheon.
 * Anjaka Ambemaribese (14,300 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Anjakese on the northern tip of the island.
 * Bemalahelu Ambemaribese (2,600 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Bemalahelians on the northeastern coast of the island.
 * Bedrukileu Ambemaribese or Standard Ambemaribese (250,000 speakers) – spoken by the on the center-east of the island.
 * Northern Tambaubau Ambemaribese (20,000 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Tambaubaunese in the north of the region Tambaubau.
 * Southern Tambaubau Ambemaribese or Simple Tambaubau Ambemaribese (4,500 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Tambaubaunese in the region Tambaubau.
 * Ambemiasa Ambemaribese (14,500 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Ambemiasese on the southern tip of the island.

Western Ambemaribese
The Western dialects are:
 * Mijerina Ambemaribese (60,000 speakers) – spoken by the people on the northern mainland of the island.
 * Plateau Ambemaribese (10,000 speakers) – spoken by the people on the centre-west of the island, and on the isles of Tanapaukeli and Mitsarakeli.
 * Tsitainduri Ambemaribese (800 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Tsitaindurinese on the mountainous areas of Ambemaribu, southwest to the plateau.
 * Maskeli Ambemaribese (1,200 speakers) – spoken by the and formerly the Maskelians on the westernmost protrusion of the island.