Amis language

Amis
'Amis or Pangcah
Pronunciation	[paŋt͡saʜ]
Native to	Taiwan
Ethnicity	200,000 Amis people (2014)[1]
Native speakers	110,000 (2015)[2]
Language family	Austronesian East Formosan Amis–Sakizaya Amis
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ami
Glottolog	amis1246
IETF	ami[3]
Distribution of Amis language (purple)
Amis is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Amis (Sowal no 'Amis or Pangcah) is a Formosan language of the Amis (or Ami), an indigenous people living along the east coast of Taiwan. Currently the largest of the Formosan languages, it is spoken from Hualien in the north to Taitung in the south, with another population in the Hengchun Peninsula near the southern end of the island, though the northern varieties are considered to be separate languages.

Government services in counties where many Amis people live in Taiwan, such as the Hualien and Taitung railway stations, broadcast in Amis alongside Mandarin. However, few Amis under the age of 20 in 1995 spoke the language. It is not known how many of the 200,000 ethnic Amis speak the language, but overall a third of the aboriginal Taiwanese population does.