| Your first name | Tsai-hsiu (Dorinda) |
| Your last name | Liu |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Amis |
| Alternative names | Panch |
| Language classification | Austronesian, East Formosan, Central |
| Geographic areas where spoken | Plains in the valley along the railroad between Hualien and Taitung, and on the east coast near the sea between Hualien and Taitung. |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | 137,651 |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | NA |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Hakka, Kavalan, Japan |
| Official language(s) in your country | Mandarin Chinese |
| What language(s) did you use at school as a child? | Mandarin Chinese |
| What language(s) is used by teachers today? | Mandarin Chinese (major), any languages can be used in class |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? | Yes. |
| If you answered yes to the above question, please specify | Kavalan speakers can master both Kavalan and Amis. |
| Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? | Yes. |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? | Amis dictionaries (Fey, Virginia 1986; Lin, Shen-an 1995), the Bible, linguistics theses: 1. Chen, Teresa. 1982. 'VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND VERBAL CLASSIFICATION IN NATAORAN-AMIS', Ph.D. dissertation of UHM Linguistics Department; 2.Wang, Samuel. 1976. The Syllable Structure of Fataan-Amis; 3. Wu, Joy. 1994. Complex Sentences in Amis; 4. Liu, Dorinda. 1999. Cleft Constructions in Amis) |
| NUMBERS | |
| 1 | c(e)cay |
| 2 | tusa |
| 3 | tulu |
| 4 | s(e)pat |
| 5 | lima |
| 6 | qenem |
| 7 | pito |
| 8 | falo |
| 9 | siwa |
| 10 | polo^ |