# Ambai (`amk`)

## Overview

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **ISO 639-3** | `amk` |
| **Family** | Austronesian |
| **Branch path** | Austronesian > Malayo Polynesian |
| **Glottocode** | — |
| **Era** | modern |
| **Sources** | abvd |

## Lexicon Summary

| Metric | Count |
|--------|------:|
| Total entries | 187 |
| Unique words | 187 |
| Unique concepts | 182 |

## Cognate Pair Participation

| Validation Set | Pairs |
|----------------|------:|
| True Cognates L1 | 50 |
| True Cognates L2 | 0 |
| True Cognates L3 | 0 |
| False Positives | 5 |
| True Negatives | 39 |
| Borrowings | 0 |

## Timespan Distribution

| Timespan | Pairs |
|----------|------:|
| Ancient Ancient | 0 |
| Ancient Modern | 0 |
| Medieval Modern | 1 |
| Modern Modern | 93 |

## Family-Internal Pairs

| Family File | Pairs |
|-------------|------:|
| Austronesian | 94 |
| Balto Slavic | 1 |
| Celtic | 1 |
| Germanic | 1 |
| Hellenic | 2 |
| Indo Iranian | 4 |
| Semitic | 1 |
| Sino Tibetan | 5 |
| Turkic | 1 |
| Uralic | 4 |

## Religious Domain

**Total religious pairs:** 21

| Sub-domain | Category | Lexicon Concepts | Validation Pairs |
|------------|----------|----------------:|-----------------:|
| Core Religious | onomastic | 0 | 0 |
| Cosmic Spiritual | onomastic | 7 | 2 |
| Moral Ethical | verbal | 2 | 0 |
| Religious Verbs | verbal | 2 | 0 |
| Ritual Ceremony | verbal | 0 | 0 |
| Sacred Places | onomastic | 2 | 19 |
| Supernatural | onomastic | 1 | 0 |

**Religious label distribution:**

| Label | Count |
|-------|------:|
| true_cognate | 63 |

## Top Partner Languages

| Partner | Pairs |
|---------|------:|
| Mandarin Chinese (`cmn`) | 16 |
| Amis (`ami`) | 9 |
| Greek (`ell`) | 8 |
| Hindi (`hin`) | 8 |
| Axamb (`ahb`) | 6 |
| Niwer Mil (`hrc`) | 6 |
| Rinconada Bikol (`bto`) | 6 |
| Mae (`mme`) | 6 |
| Malua Bay (`mll`) | 6 |
| Sika (`ski`) | 6 |
| Amara (`aie`) | 6 |
| Kamayo (`kyk`) | 6 |
| Hupdë (`jup`) | 6 |
| Ket (`ket`) | 6 |
| Gilyak (`niv`) | 6 |