Southern Amis

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Southern Amis is a regional variety of the Amis language spoken by Amis communities in the southern part of Taiwan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf regional dialect
variety of the Amis language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Taiwan
country Taiwan NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Amis NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Southern Amis dialect NERFINISHED
Southern variety of Amis
hasAncestor Proto-Amis NERFINISHED
Proto-Austronesian language NERFINISHED
Proto-Formosan language
hasCulturalAssociation Amis oral literature
Amis traditional ceremonies
hasDialectalDifferenceWith Central Amis NERFINISHED
Eastern Amis NERFINISHED
Northern Amis NERFINISHED
hasLanguageCode none (shares code with Amis language overall)
hasMorphologicalFeature Austronesian alignment system
rich verbal affixation
hasPhonologicalFeature differences in consonant realization compared to Central Amis
distinct vowel quality contrasts compared to other Amis varieties
hasSyntacticFeature basic VSO word order
use of voice morphology to mark grammatical relations
hasVariationIn lexicon compared to other Amis varieties
morphosyntax compared to other Amis varieties
phonology compared to other Amis varieties
isDocumentedBy field linguists working on Amis
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Amis dialects
isStudiedIn Formosan linguistics NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubfamily Formosan languages NERFINISHED
partOf Amis language NERFINISHED
region Hualien County (southern part) NERFINISHED
Pingtung County NERFINISHED
Taitung County NERFINISHED
spokenBy Amis people NERFINISHED
spokenIn southern Taiwan
status endangered
subjectTo language shift to Mandarin Chinese
usedIn folk songs
oral storytelling
traditional Amis rituals
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Amis language hasDialect Southern Amis