• Nivxgu dif, /ɲivxɡu dif/), or Gilyak (/ˈɡɪljæk/ GIL-yak), or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually...
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  • Nivkh (redirect from Gilyak)
    up Gilyak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: Nivkh people (Nivkhs) or Gilyak people (Gilyaks) Nivkh language or...
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    Nivkh people (redirect from Gilyaks)
    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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    Bear worship (category Articles containing Gilyak-language text)
    Sternberg, Lev Iakovlevich; Grant, Bruce (1999). The Social Organization of the Gilyak. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97799-X. Wunn, Ina...
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    In 2011, Fortescue instead suggested that Nivkh (Gilyak, Amuric), another Paleo-Siberian language, is related to Chukotko-Kamchatkan on the basis of...
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  • the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Nivkh (Gilyak, Amuric) consists of two or three languages spoken in the lower Amur basin and on the northern...
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    Voiced uvular plosive (category Articles containing Gilyak-language text)
    uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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  • Voiceless uvular plosive (category Articles containing Gilyak-language text)
    uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the...
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    Nostratic is a hypothetical language macrofamily including many of the language families of northern Eurasia first proposed in 1903. Though a historically...
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  • linguistic names. Language portal Constructed language and List of constructed languages Language (for information about language in general) Language observatory...
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