Nivkh

Palaeosiberian languages spoken in Eastern Siberia and Sakhaline
Language language Q36464
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Nivkh

Summary

Nivkh is a language[1]. Nivkh ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (512 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nivkh is in the country of Russia[3].
  • Nivkh is in the country of Japan[4].
  • Nivkh's instance of is recorded as language[5].
  • Nivkh's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Nivkh is a type of Paleo-Siberian languages[7].
  • Nivkh's writing system is recorded as Cyrillic script[8].
  • Nivkh's writing system is recorded as Nivkh alphabet[9].
  • Nivkh's Commons category is recorded as Nivkh languages[10].
  • Nivkh's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nivkh languages[11].
  • Nivkh's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+198'}[12].
  • Nivkh's UNESCO language status is recorded as 4 severely endangered[13].
  • Nivkh's indigenous to is recorded as Amur Oblast[14].
  • Nivkh's indigenous to is recorded as Khabarovsk Krai[15].
  • Nivkh's indigenous to is recorded as Sakha[16].
  • Nivkh's indigenous to is recorded as Sakhalin Oblast[17].
  • Nivkh's indigenous to is recorded as Nivkh people[18].
  • Nivkh's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NIV[19].
  • Nivkh's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133101819[20].
  • Nivkh's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 8a Moribund[21].
  • Nivkh's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[22].
  • Nivkh's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[23].
  • Nivkh's linguistic typology is recorded as language isolate[24].
  • Nivkh's linguistic typology is recorded as polysynthetic language[25].

Why It Matters

Nivkh ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (512 views/month).[2] Nivkh has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Nivkh is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . 2010 Russian census. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country
    Wals lect code niv
    Unesco language status 4 severely endangered
    Endangeredlanguages.com id 2896
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