Nivkh
Speech parts
1. Nivkh - Noun
2. Nivkh - Proper noun
Meaning
Nivkh (plural Nivkhs or Nivkh or Nivkhi)
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.
Nivkh
The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.
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Demographics Nivkh children in Sakhalin around 1903 At the beginning of the 20th century, some 32,000 Russians (of whom over 22,000 were convicts) inhabited Sakhalin along with several thousand native inhabitants.
Nivkh is a living (if moribund) language with an orthography, which is given here.