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, Nivxgu dif, /ɲivxɡu dif/), or Gilyak (/ˈɡɪljæk/ GIL-yak), or Amuric, is...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: Nivkh people (Nivkhs) or Gilyak people (Gilyaks) Nivkh language or Gilyak language...

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...

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...

critically endangered by UNESCO. In addition, languages such as Orok, Evenki and Nivkh spoken in formerly Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin are becoming more...

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...

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...

Indo-European, Altaic, and Eskimo–Aleut, among others. Greenberg also assigns Nivkh and Yukaghir, sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic...