Amish
Amish | ||
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Spoken in |
Taiwan | |
speaker | 137,651 | |
Linguistic classification |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
ami |
The Amis Language is the language of the Amis , the largest indigenous people in Taiwan . It belongs to the group of Austronesian languages and is written with Latin letters.
Examples
The following examples of words in the Amis language:
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The pronunciation
The consonants
Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | epiglottal | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p | t | k | ' [ʡ] | ^ | |||
Fricative | f | d | s (z) | x | H | |||
Affricates | c | |||||||
nasal | m | n | ng | |||||
Vibrant | r | |||||||
lateral approximant | l | |||||||
Approximant | w | y |
The vocals
front | center | back | |
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with closed mouth | i | u | |
with half-open mouth | e | O | |
with open mouth | a |
Sentence structure
There are nine different types of sentence structures in this language. B. normal sentence order, special sentence order, optative (desired form), imperative (command or request form) etc.
The first (normal) sentence position: predicate-subject
predicate | subject |
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Verb , adjective etc. | ko ( article of the subject) + nominative |
Example sentence
- Maomahay ko wama. (The father is working.)
maomahay : work; wama : father; ko : corresponds to the specific article in the German language
- Misaholoay ko wina. (The mother cooks rice.)
misaholoay : cooking rice; wina / ina : the mother
The second (normal) sentence position: predicate - subject - object
predicate | subject | object |
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Verb , adjective etc. | ko ( article of the subject ) + nominative | to (preposition of the accusative ) + nominative |
Example sentence
- Mifaca 'ko kaying to riko' . (The young lady washes clothes.)
mifaca ' : wash; kaying : miss; riko '/ fudoy : clothes
literature
- Sih-ci, Zeng, Jhong-han, Cai: Communication sentence structure of the native language Amis (阿美族 母語 會話 句型). Publisher: Taiwan Aboriginal Foundation, Taipei, 1997. ISBN 957-98515-1-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Ethnologue: 2002 Council for Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, Republic of China
Web links
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: Language: Amis (Farang) (English)