The Montgomery Texts
The Montgomery Texts
This repository contains the 3 glossed texts found here from
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. 10.31356/silwp.vol06.06
This uses an unusual orthography (see Notes) and is imperfectly standardized.
Corpus Statistics
Amis UK
Word count
358
Total audio
0
Transcribed
0
Untranscribed
0
Translated sentences
English
40
Mandarin
0
Morphologically segmented
0
Proportion glossed
0%
Notes
Many thanks are owed to Hsu Cheng-Wen "Akiw", who helped identify the orthography. Her notes follow.
Letter Correspondences
These are some identified differences between the original orthography and the current standard.
|Original | Ortho113 | | | ts | c | | | ? | ' | glottal stop | | ř | r | | | r | l | | | l | d | e.g., tamlaw → tamdaw (“people”) |
The status of f̂ (which is rare) is uncertain.
The import of hyphens, which are used sporadically, has not been ascertained.
Omission of the central vowel “e”
It appears that the central vowel is missing in many places:
mahřek -> maherek ("finish") tstsay -> cecay ("one") pafri -> pafeli ("give")
Glides are used inconsistently.
soar → sowal (“words”) tsiwro → ciwlo(“elders” / 長老— loanword )
Copyright
Authors cannot be located. This text was previously licensed as CC-BY-ND by publisher, which we have interpreted liberally. If you are a copyright owner, please reach out to us.
Citation
In accordance with our Terms of Use, if you use this corpus or any product derived from this corpus in any publication, you must cite both FormosanBank and:
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. 10.31356/silwp.vol06.06
Last updated