Southern Amis

E574280

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Southern Amis canonical 4
Southern Amis dialect 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf regional dialect
variety of the Amis language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Taiwan
country Taiwan
ethnicGroup Amis
hasAlternativeName Southern Amis dialect
linked to: Southern Amis

Southern variety of Amis
hasAncestor Proto-Amis
Proto-Austronesian language
linked to: Proto-Austronesian

Proto-Formosan language
hasCulturalAssociation Amis oral literature
Amis traditional ceremonies
hasDialectalDifferenceWith Central Amis
Eastern Amis
Northern Amis
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
linked to: Formosan languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSubfamily Formosan languages
partOf Amis language
region Hualien County (southern part)
linked to: Hualien County

Pingtung County
linked to: Ping-tung County

Taitung County
spokenBy Amis people
linked to: Amis
spokenIn southern Taiwan
status endangered
subjectTo language shift to Mandarin Chinese
usedIn folk songs
oral storytelling
traditional Amis rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amis language hasDialect Southern Amis
Northern Amis hasLinguisticRelation Southern Amis
Central Amis closelyRelatedTo Southern Amis
Southern Amis hasAlternativeName Southern Amis dialect
linked to: Southern Amis
Pangcah language hasDialect Southern Amis