Experience (Martin Amis) angry, journalistic reckoning with those journalists who have hunted Amis from tooth to tooth. But Experience is not quite a memoir, nor is it quite a portrait of his father, nor is it really an autobiography. It is an escape from memoir; indeed, an escape into privacy. In the very book which might, at first glance, seem most exhibitionist, most shamelessly metropolitan, Amis has softly retreated to the provinces of himself. His book often reads like a letter to his family and closest friends. It is sometimes embarrassing to read; the ordinary reader feels voyeuristic, at times almost uninvited, but
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