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Your
first name
Tana Tsai-hsiu
Your
last name
Liu
Preferred
name(s) of your language
Amis
Alternative
names
Panch
Language
classification
Austronesian, East Formosan, Central
Geographic
areas where spoken
Plains in the valley along the railroad between Hualien and
Taitung, and on the east coast near the sea between Hualien
and Taitung.
Approximate
number of monolingual speakers
137,651
Approximate
number of fluent speakers
NA
Other
languages spoken in area/country
Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Hakka, Kavalan, Japan
Official language(s)
in your country
Mandarin
Chinese
What language(s) did
you use at school as a child?
Mandarin
Chinese
What language(s) is
used by teachers today?
Mandarin
Chinese (major), any languages can be used in class
Do
the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your
language?
Yes.
If
you answered yes to the above question, please specify
Kavalan speakers can master both Kavalan and Amis.
Does
you language have a widely accepted writing system?
Yes.
If
you answered yes, what materials are written?
Amis dictionaries (Fey, Virginia 1986; Lin, Shen-an 1995), the
Bible, linguistics theses: 1. Chen, Teresa. 1982.
'VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND VERBAL CLASSIFICATION IN NATAORAN-AMIS',
Ph.D. dissertation of UHM Linguistics Department; 2.Wang,
Samuel. 1976. The Syllable Structure of Fataan-Amis;
3. Wu, Joy. 1994. Complex Sentences in Amis; 4.
Liu, Dorinda. 1999. Cleft Constructions in Amis)
NUMBERS
1
c(e)cay
2
tusa
3
tulu
4
s(e)pat
5
lima
6
qenem
7
pito
8
falo
9
siwa
10
polo^