Amis House (Rogersville, Tennessee) Amis House (Rogersville, Tennessee) Amis House is a pioneer settlement in Hawkins County, Tennessee near Rogersville, built in 1780–2 by Thomas Amis, the father-in-law of Rogersville founder Joseph Rogers. In addition to his stone house, which also served as an inn for travelers, Amis established a tavern, general store, distillery, saw mill, and grist mill. The property was surrounded by a palisade for protection from possible attack by Native Americans. The Amis House property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Ownership of Amis House has remained in the Amis family. Current owners are Jake and
Amis language the language, and it is not known how many of the 138,000 ethnic Amis are speakers. Amis is a dialect cluster. There are five dialects, Southern Amis, Tavalong-Vataan, Central Amis, Chengkung-Kwangshan, and Northern Amis (Nanshi Amis, which includes Nataoran). Sakizaya is a moribund language spoken among the northernmost ethnic Ami but is mutually unintelligible with the Northern Amis dialect. The following discussion covers the central dialect of Amis (Maddieson & Wright). The voiceless plosives and the affricate are released in clusters, so that "cecay" "one" is pronounced ; as is : "sepat" "four" is . The glottal stop is an