English Explanatory Dictionary

Amuric

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The putative language family whose only extant member is Nivkh, a group of two or three mutually unintelligible dialects normally viewed as a language isolate.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.

Word forms

Amuric

Etymology

From the river Amur + -ic, coined by Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen in 1996.

Synonyms

Nivkh Gilyak
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