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Nivkh

Palaeosiberian languages spoken in Eastern Siberia and Sakhaline
Class type of: Paleo-Siberian languages Q36464

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[5]
Country
Russia, Japan[3][4]
Subclass of
Paleo-Siberian languages
Ethnologue language status
8a Moribund[15]
Indigenous to
Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Sakha, Sakhalin Oblast, Nivkh people[10][11][12][13][14]
Linguistic typology
subject–object–verb, agglutinative language, language isolate, polysynthetic language[16][17][18][19]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+198[8]
UNESCO language status
4 severely endangered[9]
Writing system
Cyrillic script, Nivkh alphabet[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gilyak en Amuric en Nivkh cs nivchština cs Giljačtina da nivkhisk de nivchische Sprache de Niwchisch de niwchische Sprache de Nivchisch de giljakische Sprache de Giljakisch de niwchische Sprachen el Γλώσσες Νιβχ es Idioma nivji es Idioma niveji es Idioma nivkh es niveji es nivejí fa زبان‌های نیوخ
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85054964
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Nivkh-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
2896, 8556
Ethnologue.com language code
niv
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, data.linguistik.de
Freebase ID
/m/01k85c
GOST 7.75–97 code
нив 490
Glottolog code
gily1242
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2264996
IETF language tag
niv
ISO 639-3 code
niv
Lex ID
nivkhisk, giljakisk
Show all 21 identifiers +9
NDL Authority ID
00562488
NL CR AUT ID
ph115057
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007529272305171
NicoNicoPedia ID
ニヴフ語
Topic's main category
Category:Nivkh languages
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
496
WALS lect code
niv, nvs
YSO ID
23252
Yale LUX ID
concept/657d4e58-af27-4641-8dce-4a1ec7448ac7

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 6
Russia, Sakha, Amur Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Nivkh people
Indigenous to 5
Sakha, Amur Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Nivkh people
Linguistic typology 4
agglutinative language, language isolate, polysynthetic language, subject–object–verb
Country 2
Russia, Japan
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Nivkh nouns, Category:Nivkh lemmas
Belongs to 1
Nostratic
Subclass of 1
Paleo-Siberian languages
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nivkh languages
Writing system 1
Cyrillic script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nivkh languages
← Language of work or name 1
Nivkh Dif
← Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Emil Krebs
← Native language 1
Nivkh people
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Summary

Nivkh is a language[1]. Nivkh is a type of Paleo-Siberian languages[2].

Related Entities

Japan Russia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . 2010 Russian census. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    WALS lect code → niv, nvs
    UNESCO language status → 4 severely endangered
    Endangeredlanguages.com ID → 2896, 8556
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