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Amis symbolizes friendships established by children all over the world who attend AMIS Festivals. Although the association AMIS is based in the United Kingdom, the association chose a French (as opposed to an English) name to represent the numerous nationalities that participate in and contribute to AMIS festivals all over the world. [citation ...
The Amis (Amis: Amis, Ami, Pangcah; Paiwan: Muqami), also known as the Pangcah (which means 'people' and 'kinsmen'), are an indigenous Austronesian ethnic group native to Taiwan. They speak the Amis language ( Caciyaw no Pangcah ; Minuqamian ), an Austronesian language, and are one of the sixteen officially recognized Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
The origin of the term is as a shortened version of the expression "false friend of a translator", the English translation of a French expression (French: faux amis du traducteur) introduced by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in their 1928 book, [5] with a sequel, Autres Mots anglais perfides.
Amis et Amiles, an old French romance; The acronym AMIS may stand for: Association for Music in International Schools, an association "dedicated to the promotion of excellence in all levels of music education." African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) AMI Semiconductor, designer and manufacturer of ...
Ami Aiba, a character/protagonist in the game Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth; Ami Hinamori, the younger sister of Amu Hinamori in the Shugo Chara! manga series; Ami Kawamura, one of the main characters in the Little Battlers Experience game and anime series
Sir Martin Louis Amis FRSL [1] (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989).
Amis (Sowal no 'Amis or Pangcah) is a Formosan language of the Amis (or Ami), an indigenous people living along the east coast of Taiwan.Currently the largest of the Formosan languages, it is spoken from Hualien in the north to Taitung in the south, with another population in the Hengchun Peninsula near the southern end of the island, though the northern varieties are considered to be separate ...
[4] Judy Dempsey wrote in The Irish Times, "Amis has done something important in 'Other People.'" [5] In the Los Angeles Times, Charles Champlin called Amis "an English literary celebrity who, like Norman Mailer and Truman Capote here, finds himself in the columns more often than some film stars," and found the book, "an ingenious and ...