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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.