Amis

computational resources

(spell checkers, orthography converters, speech recognition software, keyboard layouts, machine translators)

dictionaries/phrasebooks/glossaries

(multilingual and monolingual, online and paper)

• Short (604 entries) word list. From the bottom of the page: ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary edited by Blust, Robert & Trussel, Stephen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. We can share and adapt the material for any purpose as long as appropriate credit is included. https://acd.clld.org/languages/227
• A very limited (one page) word list from a 1962 Linguistics conference. Citation: Torjesen, Ed (1962) "Amis (Taiwan) word list," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 6, Article 7. https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol6/iss1/7/
• A collection of raw text files with word lists and translations in English and Mandarin. Directly from the README regarding the Creative Commons Noncommercial license: 蔡中涵委員 g0v 阿美語萌典計劃使用本字典，以 CC BY-NC 授權宣告 https://github.com/miaoski/amis-data
• Same author as above, more word lists. https://github.com/miaoski/amis-safolu/tree/master/dict

grammatical descriptions

(theoretical and pædagogical)

• A University of Taipei webpage with vocabulary in addition to grammar lessons, stories, and audio recordings. Copyright 2020 Council of Indigenous Peoples. All Rights Reserved. http://web.klokah.tw/en/
• Wu, Jing-lan Joy. 2006. Verb Classification, Case Marking, and Grammatical relations in Amis. (available online through SUNY Buffalo)
• Wu, J. (2003) Classical modifiers in Amis. Concentric: Studies in English Literature and Linguistics, 29(2), 59-81.

scientific works

(papers, books, websites)

corpora

(any collection of authentic text, linguistically annotated or not, including Wikipedia in the language, news websites, Twitter feeds, etc.)

• Pdf of the bible: Genesis https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ami_gen-1
• bible[dot]com: Psalms, Proverbs, and New Testament. Copyright: The Bible Society in Taiwan, 2019. https://www.bible.com/bible/3411/PSA.1.AMIS2019
• Sentence examples from the same 1962 conference listed above. Citation: (Unknown), Tamih and Montgomery, Robert L. (1962) "Amis text," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 6, Article 6. https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol6/iss1/6/
• https://youtu.be/Y2elu_GxaH0

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