Central Amis

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Central Amis is a major dialect of the Amis language spoken by the Amis Indigenous people in eastern Taiwan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of the Amis language
closelyRelatedTo Northern Amis NERFINISHED
Southern Amis NERFINISHED
Tavalong-Vataan Amis NERFINISHED
country Republic of China
countryStatus recognized Indigenous language variety in Taiwan (as part of Amis)
endangeredStatus vulnerable (as part of Amis language)
ethnicity Amis NERFINISHED
hasDialectGroupRole major dialect of Amis
hasGlottocode amis1246 (Amis macro-language) NERFINISHED
hasMorphosyntacticFeature Austronesian alignment system
focus system typical of Philippine-type Austronesian languages
voice-marking on verbs
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (relative to some other Amis varieties)
rich consonant inventory typical of Amis
ISO639_3 ami (shared with other Amis dialects)
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Formosan languages NERFINISHED
partOf Amis language NERFINISHED
region Hualien County NERFINISHED
Taitung County NERFINISHED
script Latin script
spokenBy Amis Indigenous people of Taiwan NERFINISHED
Amis people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Taiwan NERFINISHED
eastern Taiwan NERFINISHED
usedIn oral tradition of the Amis people
ritual speech of the Amis people
traditional songs of the Amis people
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Amis language hasDialect Central Amis