• 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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    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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    with stroke and descender is sometimes used in the writing of the Nivkh languages, as a variant of ge with stroke and hook ⟨Ӻ, ӻ⟩. This letter has not...
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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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    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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    for a systematic relationship between the Nivkh language of Sakhalin and the Amur basin and the Algic languages. He also proposed a secondary relationship...
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    Chukotko-Kamchatkan-Amuric languages form a hypothetical language family including Nivkh and Chukotko-Kamchatkan. A relationship between these two language groups was...
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    Altaic, Korean, Japanese, Ainu, Nivkh/Gilayak, and Chukchi–Kamchatkan), with the exception of Yeniseian, in a proposed language family called Eurasiatic. Such...
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    Turkic languages). They are, however, firmly entrenched in the non-Uralo-Siberian languages of northernmost Eurasia, including Yeniseian, Nivkh, Na-Dene...
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    Finnish in Europe), the Yeniseian languages (linked to Turkic and to the Athabaskan languages of North America), Yukaghir, Nivkh of Sakhalin, Ainu of northern...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    that the various languages spoken in Eurasia and adjacent regions have a genealogical relationship, and ultimately descend from languages spoken during the...
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    Afroasiatic Egyptian language and Semitic languages. The analysis of the family relationships between the Indo-European languages, and the reconstruction...
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    systematic relationship between the Nivkh language of Sakhalin and the Amur river basin and the Algic languages, and a secondary relationship between...
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  • Austronesian languages Distribution of Koreanic languages Distribution of Japonic languages Distribution of Ainu languages Distribution of Nivkh languages Distribution...
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    org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Accessed 2011-04-23. "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Wolfram Siegel. in Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Simon Ager (ed.). http://www...
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  • Amazonian languages. Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages Ket (possible) Nivkh (possible) Ainu Jiarongic languages Munda languages Northwest Caucasian languages Algonquian...
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    Nanai, Udege, Chukchi, Koryak and Nivkh languages to denote the sound IPA: [t͡ʃ], although in some of these languages in practice, several other alphabets...
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    Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages /jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken...
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    The Ainu languages share a noteworthy amount of vocabulary (especially fish names) with several Northeast Asian languages, including Nivkh, Tungusic...
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    2010. p. 43. Retrieved 2011-05-18. Ager, Simon (ed.). "Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu)". Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-05-18....
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  • several Siberian language isolates, like Nivkh This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Siberian languages. If an internal link...
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  • on revitalizing the Nivkh language. He is a critic of the Altaic hypothesis. Janhunen, Juha, ed. (2003). The Mongolic languages. London: Routledge. Janhunen...
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  • settlement names in the Nivkh language or in the only know given Russian name. According to the Russian Census of 2002 most Nivkhs have lived in following...
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    also used in Bashkir, Tajik, Karakalpak, Shor, Siberian Tatar and Nivkh languages, and formerly in Azerbaijani. It is similar to the letter Ğ found in...
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