- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Nivkh or
Amuric or
Gilyak may
refer to:
Nivkh people (
Nivkhs) or
Gilyak people (Gilyaks)
Nivkh languages or
Gilyak languages...
- The
Nivkh, or
Gilyak (also
Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous...
-
Nivkh (/ˈniːfk/ NEEFK;
occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф,
Nivhgu dif, /ɲivxɡu dif/), or
Gilyak (/ˈɡɪljæk/ GIL-yak), or Amuric, is...
-
Nivkh alphabets are the
alphabets used to
write the
Nivkh language.
During its existence, it
functioned on
different graphic bases and was
reformed several...
- 5 people,
mostly elderly, on the west
coast of the
Kamchatka Peninsula.
Nivkh (Gilyak, Amuric)
consists of two or
three languages spoken in the lower...
- Indo-European, Altaic, and Eskimo–Aleut,
among others.
Greenberg also ****igns
Nivkh and Yukaghir,
sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic...
- Peninsula. 2.
Nivkh is
spoken in the
lower Amur
basin and on the
northern half of
Sakhalin island. It has a
recent modern literature and the
Nivkhs have experienced...
-
writing Ket and
sometimes Nivkh, and in the
transcription of
Eskaleut languages. Ge with hook is used in the
literature of
Nivkh to
represent the voiced...
-
critically endangered by UNESCO. In addition,
languages such as Orok,
Evenki and
Nivkh spoken in
formerly ****anese
controlled southern Sakhalin are
becoming more...
- Russians. The
indigenous peoples of the
island are the Ainu, Oroks, and
Nivkhs, who are now
present in very
small numbers. The island's name is derived...
