User:Saph/Nivkhic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnifkɪk/

Proper noun

Nivkhic

1. A Paleosiberian language family including Nivkh and Nighvng.

   Synonym: Amuric

   • 1998, Ekaterina Gruzdeva, Nivkh, Lincom Europa:
   • (Can we date this quote?), Yuri Koryakov, Northern Asia and Eastern Europe:

     These languages belong to 13 or 16 language families (depending on the status of Transeurasian): Indo-European, Uralic, Transeurasian (Altaic; or four individual families: Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Koreanic, with Japonic not being represented in the area), Kartvelian (South Caucasian), Abkhaz-Adyghe (West Caucasian), Nakh-Daghestanian (East Caucasian), Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yukaghir, Eskimo-Aleut, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan, Nivkhic (Amuric) and Yeniseian.