Pangcah language

E574283

The Pangcah language, more widely known as Amis, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Amis (Pangcah) indigenous people of eastern Taiwan.

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Label Occurrences
Pangcah language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
alternativeName Amis NERFINISHED
Amis language NERFINISHED
country Republic of China
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Amis NERFINISHED
glottocode amis1246
hasBibleTranslation partial Bible translations in Amis
hasDialect Central Amis NERFINISHED
Malikuda Amis NERFINISHED
Northern Amis NERFINISHED
Southern Amis NERFINISHED
Tavalong-Vata’an Amis NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature Austronesian alignment system
voice-marking on verbs
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasRevitalizationEffort community language classes
radio and media programs in Amis
hasSpeakerCommunity urban Amis migrants in Taiwanese cities
hasSyntacticFeature predicate-initial word order
ISO639-3 ami
isPartOf Formosan indigenous languages of Taiwan
isTaughtIn some elementary schools in Taiwan
languageFamily Austronesian languages
lexicalSimilarityWith other Formosan Austronesian languages
nativeName Amis NERFINISHED
Pangcah NERFINISHED
region Hualien County NERFINISHED
Taitung County NERFINISHED
Yilan County NERFINISHED
regulatingBody Council of Indigenous Peoples (Taiwan) NERFINISHED
spokenBy Amis people NERFINISHED
Pangcah people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Taiwan NERFINISHED
eastern Taiwan NERFINISHED
status vulnerable language
subfamily Formosan languages NERFINISHED
threatenedBy Mandarin Chinese dominance
language shift to Mandarin among younger speakers
usedFor daily communication within Amis communities
oral literature
traditional songs
usedIn indigenous cultural festivals in Taiwan
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Amis language hasAlternativeName Pangcah language