Amis people is one of the aboriginal people in Taiwan. The Amis language belongs to austronesian languages (formosan group), it is spoken by more than 100,000 Amis persons living in Taiwan. Since the Government of Taiwan has imposed Chinese language for more than 50 years, today Amis language can be considered as an endangered language. This corpus comes from field work with Amis people living in urban context; it describes their usages concerning three languages: Amis, Chinese, and Minnan. (Minnan people are about 70% of the population of Taiwan.) The content is 25 tapes recorded in two cities (Hualien and Taipei) from January 2002 to August 2003. It consists in interviews (in both Chinese and Amis languages), free conversations and Christian liturgy.
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sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, aboriginal, Amis, Hualien, Taipei, Taiwan
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