English
Etymology
From Nivkh нивх (ņivx, “man”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɪvk/, /nɪvx/, /ni(ː)fk/
- Rhymes: -ɪvk, -ɪvx, -ifk, -iːfk
Noun
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.
Synonyms
Proper noun
Nivkh
- The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.
Synonyms
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 (Nivꭓ)
- Lithuanian: Nivchių
- Manchu: ᡶᡳᠶᠠᡥᠠ
ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ (fiyaha gisun), ᡶᡳᠶᠠᡴᠠ
ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ (fiyaka gisun)
- Nivkh: нивх диф (ņivx d̦if), нивх туғс (ņivx tuγs)
- 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
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