Nivkh

Meaning

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.
2. The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.

Etymology / origin

From Nivkh нивх (ņivx, “man”).

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