Influences on the Ambemarivese language

The (떼니 마리쁘 teny marivo) has a long history of borrowing words, expressions, and subtler features of other languages it has come in contact with. It is a, developed from Southwest and closely related to. Due to extensive contact with Matobwe peoples, it has many phonological and lexical influences from. A portion of the Ambemarivese vocabulary stems from colonial counterparts (namely, , ). A great amount of have been influenced by, partially due to  with the advent of Marivoization, but  continues to be dictated by Jeongmian. Where applicable, with OSDMA member-states has led to the substitution of some Sinjuan lexicon.

Between 350 BCE and 550 CE, Ambemarivo was subject to immigration from, particularly from modern-day Nagara Dipa. They settled primarily on the south, and spread throughout the island incrementally. As a result, the north of the island was inhabited last, and features less. By 600 CE, isolation from the Haegyean world saw the transition into Proto-Ambemarivese, the of Ambemarivese and the stem of most its grammar and lexicon. Examples include:
 * *lakaw "to walk" > Proto-Ambemarivese *mandeha (*man- & *leha "march; movement; trajectory") >  mandeha  or slurred as  (confer with the more recent mamindra "to walk" (man- & findra "change of place") from  pinda "to amend")
 * *qalíma "hand" (from *líma "five") > taŋan & Proto-Ambemarivese *taŋan >  tànana  (via dialectical  tan̈ana; confer also with tanako "my hand" and dialectical  tan̈ake "open palm; honest but impolite remark", proving  -a is a later suffixation)
 * *bulu "hair; feather" > wulu & Proto-Ambemarivese *wulu >  (under Vanhu : /*w/ > /v/) volo
 * *qelad "wing" > elat & Proto-Ambemarivese *elaT >  elatra  (confer with efatra  "four" from PDH *(h)əpat, indicating pattern /-t/ > /-T/ > /-ʈʳə̥/)
 * *bahi "woman" > wawey & Proto-Ambemarivese *wali >  (under Vanhu : /*w/ > /v/) vavy "woman; wife"  (not to be confused with vady  "spouse ", probably from PDH *qasawa "spouse; either husband or wife")
 * *matay "to die" > matey & Proto-Ambemarivese *mate >  maty  "dead " and faty  "death ; corpse" (both unrelated to  mfu "corpse")

A second wave of immigrants, this time -speaking, arrived from modern-day Matobo and Tsongtiko around 600 CE. They stayed mostly along the western coast, miscegenating with natives to eventually from the, whose dialect has the most Vanhu vocabulary. The remained spoken on that area even after assimilation, providing a steadfast influence to Ambemarivese and to its ; see: ts ⟨ts⟩ and nts ⟨nts⟩, ʈʳ ⟨tr⟩ and ɳʈʳ ⟨ntr⟩, and ɖʳ ⟨dr⟩ and ɳɖʳ ⟨ndr⟩, confer with:  nd͡ʒ,  ⁿd͡ʒ̤,  nd̥ʒ̊,  d̠̥ʲʱ, and  ɮ̈ among others (do consult ). Sound changes and loanwords were then standardized through conquest, internal slave trade, and royal governance. Examples include:
 * macho "eyes" (plural of 'jicho') > maso  (commonly mistaken for cognate to  *mata, which renders as mato in North Dayak)
 * Either fupi or  pfupi "short" >  fohy  or slurred  "short"
 * Either mbwa or  mbyana "dog" >  amboa  "dog" (confer with alìka  "dog; mongrel", which is possibly from PDH *anziŋ or *(w)asu and is equally vulgar as Haegyean counterparts)
 * Either moto or  umlilo "fire" > dialectical  motro  "fire" (confer with standard afo  "fire", from PDH *hapuy)
 * jumba "mansion" ( of nyumba "house") > dialectical anjomba  "mansion" (here prefixed with an- ; confer with standard tranobe "big house; mansion", from trano (< PHD *ʀumaq "house; family dwelling") and be "big")
 * mnofu "boneless meat; steak" > nofo  and dialectical  nofotse  "flesh" (confer with hena "meat or vegetables accompanying a rice meal; (in conservative dialects) fish" from PDH *(h)ikan "fish" and furthermore from *kan "to eat")
 * n'ombe or mombe "cattle" > omby  (confer with more archaic jamòka "cattle; (specifically) zebu", possibly from PDH *lembu)
 * Some animal word from, either imbulu "monitor lizard" or ibiuigane "woodboring beetle" or ipelu "cockroach" > biby  "animal; (in conservative dialects) insect" (famously used in bibilava "snake", literally 'long animal')