Nivkh languages

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title: Nivkh languages
text: Nivkh, or Gilyak, or Amuric, 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 Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun, along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin. "Gilyak" is the Russian rendering of terms derived from the Tungusic "Gileke" and Manchu-Chinese "Gilemi" for culturally similar peoples of the Amur River region, and was applied principally to th
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description: Paleosiberian language family
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivkh_languages
date created: 2003-06-10T02:26:59Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T21:22:52Z
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