• is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people in Russian...
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    languages. Nivkh is divided into four dialects or languages. Nivkh (plural Nivkhgu in the Nivkh language), an endonym, means "person" in the Nivkh language. They...
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  • free dictionary. Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: Nivkh people (Nivkhs) or Gilyak people (Gilyaks) Nivkh language or Gilyak language Gilyak class gunboat...
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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...
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    consequently Ainu languages have been classified critically endangered by UNESCO. In addition, languages such as Orok, Evenki and Nivkh spoken in formerly...
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    Eskimo–Aleut, among others. Greenberg also assigns Nivkh and Yukaghir, sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic family. While the Eurasiatic...
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    Koreanic and Nivkh specifically have been observed. The Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic languages predate the spread of Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, but are...
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    additional letter of the Cyrillic script used for the transcription of the Nivkh languages, where it transcribes the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/, like the r of...
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    Ge with hook (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    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...
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    The language would also have been different from Usan-guk. According to Janhunen, Okjeo, Ye-Maek and Buyeo are related to the Nivkh languages, which...
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