Amis language

Spoken in

Austronesian

  • Amisisch

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Ami

The Amisisch is the language of the Americans, the largest Native American tribe in Taiwan. It belongs to the group of Austronesian languages. Lack of own characters are Latin letters used as phonetics.

  • 3.1 The first ( normal ) word order: subject - predicate 3.1.1 Example sentence
  • 3.2.1 Example sentence

Examples

The following examples of words of amisischen language:

  • Lotong: Monkey
  • Fafoy: Pig
  • Wacu: Dog
  • Pusi: Cat
  • Kudiwis: Rabbit
  • Cecay: one
  • Tosa: two
  • Tolo: three
  • Sepat: four
  • Lima: five
  • Enem: six
  • Pito: seven
  • Falo: eight
  • Siwa: nine
  • Polo: ten

The debate

The consonants

The vowels

Syntax

In this language, there are nine different sentence structure types, such as normal word order, special rate position, optative ( optative ), imperative ( command or request form ), etc. In the following graph the syntax of the language is shown amisischen:

The first ( normal ) word order: subject - predicate

Example sentence

  • Maomahay ko wama. ( The father works. )

Maomahay: work; wama: Father; ko: corresponds to the definite article in the German language

  • Misaholoay ko vina. ( The mother is cooking rice. )

Misaholoay: cook rice; vina / ina: the mother

The second (normal ) position sentence: predicate - subject - object

Example sentence

  • Mifaca 'ko Kaying to riko '. ( The girl washes clothes. )

Mifaca ': Wash; Kaying: Miss; riko '/ fudoy: Clothing

Language family Bilabial consonant Labiodental consonant Dental consonant Alveolar consonant Palatal consonant Velar consonant Epiglottal consonant Glottal consonant Fricative consonant Approximant consonant Adjective
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