Northern Amis

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Northern Amis is a major dialect of the Amis language spoken by the Amis Indigenous people in the northern coastal region of eastern Taiwan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of the Amis language
associatedWith Indigenous peoples of Taiwan NERFINISHED
country Republic of China (Taiwan) NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Amis NERFINISHED
hasDialects various local subvarieties
hasLinguisticRelation Central Amis NERFINISHED
Hengchun Amis NERFINISHED
Southern Amis NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature Austronesian alignment system (shared with Amis)
hasOwn distinct phonological and lexical features within Amis
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (relative to some other Amis varieties)
rich consonant inventory typical of Amis
hasWordOrder flexible VSO / VOS word order (as in Amis)
isMajorDialectOf Amis language NERFINISHED
ISO639_3 ami NERFINISHED
languageBranch Formosan languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
partOf Amis language NERFINISHED
recognizedAs Indigenous language variety in Taiwan language policy context
sharesLexiconWith other Amis dialects
spokenBy Amis people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Taiwan NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion northern coastal region of eastern Taiwan
subjectOf comparative studies of Amis dialects
linguistic fieldwork in Taiwan
threatenedBy language shift to Mandarin Chinese
usedFor local radio and community media (to a limited extent)
oral tradition
songs and rituals
usedIn everyday communication among Amis communities in northern Hualien and nearby areas
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Amis language hasDialect Northern Amis