- 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...
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Nivkh (/ˈniːfk/ NEEFK;
occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф,
Nivhgu dif, /ɲivxɡu dif/), or
Gilyak (/ˈɡɪljæk/ GIL-yak), or Amuric, is...
- 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...
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bears found in many
North Eurasian ethnic religions such as
among the Sami,
Nivkh, Ainu, Basques,
Germanic peoples,
Slavs and Finns.
There are also a number...
- 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...
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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...
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Nivkh mythology is the
mythology of the
Nivkhs, a
small nation living around upper Amur
river and on Sakhalin.
Individual folk
tales (tylgund) were first...
- The tail is held
straight or
slightly bent to the side. Historically, the
Nivkh people would dock the last 1/3 of the tail at
birth to
prevent dogs from...
