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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ami of Taiwan

The Ami of Taiwan, numbering approximately 216,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are the largest Indigenous people of Taiwan, traditionally organized around a matrilineal kinship system in which property and clan leadership passed through mothers and daughters, centered in the coastal valley between the Central and Coastal mountain ranges. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Amis is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Ami

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: East Asian Peoples
Country: Taiwan
People Cluster: Taiwan Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Amis (ami)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 216,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007510
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Amis
Language Family: Austronesian

65%
%
Amis Speakers

Media Resources in Amis:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Amis:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2019 Bible Society in Taiwan✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Amis bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Ami are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Ami:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Ami of Taiwan

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
readPsalm 51:1

Give thanks to God that He is able to forgive all the sins people might commit, and pray that many who don't yet know this will hear the good news and turn to Him for mercy.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
read1 Timothy 2:5-6

Pray for the truth about Jesus Christ to spread among the lost so that many will accept His ransom for their sin and experience freedom in a relationship with Him.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
readColossians 4:6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, their speech will always be gracious and ready to answer for the hope which is within them.

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
readRomans 15:20-21

Pray that God will send believers to cross cultures and proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that the nations might glorify God for His mercy.

Amis Across Countries (ROP3 - 100294) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▲Religion
AmiPG007510AmiTaiwan216,000No Longer UnreachedAmisProtestantism

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