Martin Amis Amis's work centres on the excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what "The New York Times" called "the new unpleasantness". Inspired by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis, Amis himself has gone on to influence many successful British novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. Amis was born in Oxford, England. His father, noted English novelist Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk
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