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Name: Amis

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Ami; Amia; Pangcah; Pagcah; Pangtsah; Bakurut; Lam-Si-Hoan; Maran; Sabari; Tanah; Sprache von Formosa

Spoken in: Taiwan, China

Number of speakers: 138,000 (2002 Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, ROC). Ethnic population: 137,651 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 30000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 137651 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: ami

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Austronesian

Parent Subgroup: Central East Formosan; Central Formosan (rgmk)

Child Dialects: Tavalong-Vataan; Kwangfu; Kuangfu (ami-tav) Northern Amis; Nanshi Amis (ami-nor) Chengkung-Kwangshan (ami-che) Central Amis; Haian Ami; Hsiukulan Ami (ami-cen) Southern Amis; Peinan; Hengch'un Amis; Taitung (ami-sou)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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