[Wikipedia-l] Request for Amis Wiktionary

Wed Jan 5 09:15:20 UTC 2005

Dear All,

  We would like to open a Wiktionary for the Amis language. Amis is an 
Austronesian language used by the Amis -- one of the Austronesian 
people in Taiwan. The Amis account for about one third of Taiwan's 
indigenous population (i.e. 130 thousand), however, many of the younger 
generation do not speak the language and till now there is still no 
exact ststistic report of the number of real speakers.

  There are two prevailing writing systems of this language: the 
Presbyterian Church system and the International Phonetic Symbol 
system, the later is used only within the academic circle. We would 
like to edit a Wiktionary which basically employs the Presbyterian 
Church system but also notes the IPS so that readers can also know the 
exact pronounciations.

  At this moment there are at least three people who are willing to 
commit to this project. They are Nakao Eki, Afah Lisin, and Tai-ni 
Tsou. The former two are native speakers and the later two as 
ethnographers are also familiar with the academic Amis writing system. 
Pektiong Tan (zh-min-nan:pektiong) will help those people to get 
familiar with the wikipedia system.

  We would prefer to set the default interface language to be Mandarin 
with traditional character used in Taiwan (zh-tw) since most of the 
potential user of this wiktionary can read Mandarin with traditional 
character.

  Proposed domain name:
  http://amis.wiktionary.org/

  Language tag for Amis:
  ISO 639-2: N.A.
  ISO 639-3 (Draft): Ami
  SIL: ALV
  RFC-3066: i-ami

  Sincerely,
  Nakao Eki,
  Afah Lisin,
  Tai-ni Tsou,
  Pektiong Tan

Some info about Taiwanese aborigine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aborigine