Nivkh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur River estuary in Russia's Khabarovsk Krai, Also distributed in Japan's Hokkaido.
name
  1. The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.

Pronunciation

/nɪvk/ /nɪvx/ /ni(ː)fk/

Word forms

Nivkh Nivkhs Nivkhi

Etymology

From Nivkh нивх (ņivx, “man”).

Synonyms

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.