The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous...

isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people in Russian Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun (a tributary of the Amur)...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nivkh or Amuric or Gilyak may refer to: Nivkh people (Nivkhs) or Gilyak people (Gilyaks) Nivkh language or Gilyak language...

people known as the Guwei (骨嵬; Gǔwéi, the phonetic approximation of the Nivkh name for Ainu) from Sakhalin invaded and fought with the Jilimi (Nivkh people)...

Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, Basques[citation needed], Germanic peoples, Slavs and Finns. There are also a number of deities...

classified many Nivkh people and Orok people from southern Sakhalin, who had been Japanese imperial subjects in Karafuto Prefecture, as Japanese people and repatriated...

in the 17th–18th centuries. Nivkh people are an ethnic group indigenous to Sakhalin, having a few speakers of the Nivkh language, but their fisher culture...

211 Koreans in Japan who are not Japanese citizens. A small number of Nivkh people resettled in Hokkaido when Japan evacuated southern Sakhalin at the end...

The Nanai people (Russian: нанайцы, romanized: nanaitsy) are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang...

Nivkh alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Nivkh language. During its existence, it functioned on different graphic bases and was reformed several...

tail is held straight or slightly bent to the side. Historically, the Nivkh people would dock the last 1/3 of the tail at birth to prevent dogs from grabbing...

worship). Their religion bears similarities to the religion of the Nivkh people and Ainu people. "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской...

the majority of whom are Russians. The indigenous peoples of the island are the Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs, who are now present in very small numbers. The...

Itelmen is now spoken by fewer than 10 people, mostly elderly, on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. 2. Nivkh is spoken in the lower Amur basin and...

including the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, as well as Chinese, Koreans, and Austronesians (Taiwanese indigenous peoples and Micronesians) who were incorporated...

social norms (from Latin mos and mōrēs) Mos, a traditional dish of the Nivkh people Mos language, an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language of Malaya and Thailand...

(негидальцы): Khabarovsk Krai Nivkh people (нивхи): Khabarovsk Krai, Sakhalin Oblast Oroch people (орочи): Khabarovsk Krai Orok people (Ulta, Uilta) (ороки, ульта):...

dragon river (Chinese: 黑龍江, Hēilóngjiāng)"). The indigenous people of Sakhalin are the Nivkh, Orok, and Ainu minorities. The first Europeans to explore...

Nanais, Yukaghirs, Evens, Itelmens, Ulchis, Koryaks, Nivkhs, and Chukchis, are among the people sharing the highest genetic affinities with the Late Bronze...

period. They are generally believed to be ethnic Nivkh people and have influenced several later peoples in the region such as the Wuji, Yilou and Mohe,...

finally capitulated to the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China in 1308. The Nivkh people are believed to be the descendants of an indigenous population that have...

people who named the pit-dwellers "dwarves" must have been if they considered movement beneath the plant indicative of short stature. Epi-Jomon Nivkh...

romanized: Nakamura Chiyo; 1906–1969) was a Japanese Nivkh shaman, craftswoman, performer, and writer of Nivkh folklore and songs. In September 1905, the year...

Black people in Japan (黒人系日本人, Kokujinkei nihonjin /Nipponjin) are Japanese residents or citizens of sub-Saharan African ancestry. In the mid-16th century...

"Documentation and Revitalisation of two Endangered Languages in Eastern Asia: Nivkh and Ainu" 18 March 2015 Boer, Elisabeth de; Yang, Melinda A.; Kawagoe, Aileen;...

identical with the Neolithic Amur River Basin populations, of which Nivkh people are the closest modern representative. As the paper detected this ancestry...

Itelmen is now spoken by fewer than 5 people, mostly elderly, on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Nivkh (Gilyak, Amuric) consists of two or three...

people, and at lower frequency among surrounding groups, such as the Nivkhs or Ulch people, but also Koreans and other coastal groups, suggesting that the...

The Ryukyuan people are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan...

cited in the Genbunrui, there is a description of the Ainu attacking the Nivkh people around the 13th century and later fighting the Mongol Empire. Some believe...