Nivkh

English

Etymology

From Nivkh нивх (nivx, “man”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɪvk/, /nɪvx/, /ni(ː)fk/

• Rhymes: -ɪvk, -ɪvx, -ifk, -iːfk

Noun

Nivkh (plural Nivkhs or Nivkh or Nivkhi)

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.

Synonyms

• (dated) Gilyak

Proper noun

Nivkh

1. The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.

Synonyms

• Gilyak
• Amuric

Translations

language

• Breton: Nivc'heg
• Bulgarian: Нивх (Nivh)
• Catalan: Nivkh
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼夫赫 (nífūhè), 尼夫赫语

• Chuvash: Нивх (Nivh)
• Czech: Nivchština
• Dutch: Nivch
• Estonian: nivhi
• Finnish: nivhi (fi)
• French: nivkhe m, nivkh (fr) m
• Galician: nivkh
• German: Niwchische
• Hebrew: נִיבְחִית
• Indonesian: Nivkh
• Italian: nivkh
• Japanese: ニヴフ語 (ニヴフご, Nibufu-go)
• Khmer: នីវ្ខ (niiwkhɑɑ)
• Komi-Permyak: Нивх (Ńivx)
• Komi-Zyrian: Нивх (Ńivx)
• Korean: 니브흐어 (nibeuheueo)
• Lezgi: Нивх (Nivχ)
• Lithuanian: Nivchių
• Manchu: ᡶᡳᠶᠠᡥᠠ
  ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ (fiyaha gisun)
• Nivkh: нивх диф (nivx dif), нивх туғс (nivx tuꜧs)
• Norwegian: Giljakisk, Nivkhisk
• Occitan: nivkh m, nivkhe m
• Polish: niwchijski (pl)
• Portuguese: Nivkhe
• Russian: нивхский (ru) (nivxskij)
• Spanish: nivejí, nivkh, nivj, nivji
• Swedish: nivchiska (sv)
• Ukrainian: Нівхська (Nivxsʹka)
• Uzbek: нивхс (nivxs)
• Veps: Nivhan
• Vietnamese: Nivkh