Amis

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Jing-lan Joy Wu, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 9, 2013. Referenceː Tsuchida, Shigeru. 1988. Amis. In Takashi Kamei, Rokuro Kono, and Eiichi Chino (eds), The Sanseido Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1: Languages of the World, Part One , 447-449. Tokyo: Sanseido Press. 提供资料的语言学家: 吴静兰教授, 2013 年 12 月 9 日 Other comments: Amis has a decimal system, the above data are taken from Northern dialect of Amis. Amis is spoken by about 100,000 speakers ( Ethnic population: 214,000) in valley plains and east coast in Hualien and Taitung counties, Taiwan. The data are converted to IPA symbols based on the speakers’ transcription/orthography. Notice that in Amis, the glottal stop before and after vowels are optionally transcribed, and vowels /u/ and /o/ are used as free variations and the the symbol [ ʡ ] is an epiglottal plosive. (1) According to Tsuchida (1988), there are five major dialects in Amis: Sakizaya (or Sakiraya), Northern (or Nanshi Amis), Tavalong-Vataan, Central, (Haian Amis and Hsiukulan Amis excluding Tavalong-Vataan) and Southern (Peinan Amis and Hengchun Amis). Sakizaya has been politically recognized as an independent language by the government of Taiwan, and hence, its data will not be listed in the table. Notice that Tsuchida’s classification is slightly different from the dialects officially recognized by the Taiwanese government, which are Northern, Central (including Tavalong-Vataan Amis and Hsiukulan Amis in Tsuchida’ classification), Haian, Malan (or Falangaw, roughly corresponding to Peinan Amis in Tsuchida’s classification), and Hengchun. The examples from Vataan are collected from Hui- Mei Lin, a native speaker of this dialect. The rest of the examples are cited from the 1000-word Vocabulary List published by the Council of Indigenous Peoples: 1229CD7C. However, I have made some corrections after double checking with the native speakers. The List published on-line still needs further proof-reading and revision. Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Jing-lan Joy Wu, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 9, 2013. Referenceː Tsuchida, Shigeru. 1988. Amis. In Takashi Kamei, Rokuro Kono, and Eiichi Chino (eds), The Sanseido Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1: Languages of the World, Part One , 447-449. Tokyo: Sanseido Press. 提供资料的语言学家: 吴静兰教授, 2013 年 12 月 9 日 Other comments: Amis has a decimal system. The above data are taken from Vataan dialect of Amis language. Note the the symbol [ ʡ ] is an epiglottal plosive. Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Jing-lan Joy Wu, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 9, 2013. Referenceː Tsuchida, Shigeru. 1988. Amis. In Takashi Kamei, Rokuro Kono, and Eiichi Chino (eds), The Sanseido Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1: Languages of the World, Part One , 447-449. Tokyo: Sanseido Press. 提供资料的语言学家: 吴静兰教授, 2013 年 12 月 9 日 Other comments: Amis has a decimal system. The above data are taken from C entral dialect of Amis language. The “Central” dialect here refers to one recognized by the Taiwanese government; hence, it might includes data from both Tavalong-Vattan and Hsiukulan dialects. Note that there are two forms for ''hundred'; The first one is used in the Vataan-Tavalong dialect; the second one is used in the Hsiukulan dialect. Note the the symbol [ ʡ ] is an epiglottal plosive. Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Jing-lan Joy Wu, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 9, 2013. Referenceː Tsuchida, Shigeru. 1988. Amis. In Takashi Kamei, Rokuro Kono, and Eiichi Chino (eds), The Sanseido Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1: Languages of the World, Part One , 447-449. Tokyo: Sanseido Press. 提供资料的语言学家: 吴静兰教授, 2013 年 12 月 9 日 Other comments: Amis has a decimal system. The above data are taken from Malan /Farangaw dialect of Amis. Amis has a typical