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Nivkh

By Ekaterina Gruzdeva

Book information

Publisher
LINCOM Europa
Year
1998
ISBN
3895860395, 9783895860393
Open Library ID
OL134500M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9871967 bytes)
Pages
66\35
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Нивхский язык

Description

Nivkh (otherwise known as Gilyak) is considered genetically isolated, though is traditionally classified as Paleasiberian. Typologically, Nivkh is an agglutinative synthetic nominative language with elements of morphological fusion and some analytical features. It is the language of a small nationality (4,700 people) presently residing mainly at the lower reaches of the Amur River in the far east on the Asian continent and on Sakhalin Island (Russia). Four dialects of Nivkh are distinguished: Amur, East-Sakhalin, North-Sakhalin and South-Sakhalin. The description is based primarily on the materials of Amur and East-Sakhalin diaelcts of Nivkh, the last not well described yet. The sketch contains five sections, two folklore texts (in both examined dialects of Nivkh) with interlinear translation and an ample bibliography.

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