Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nivkh

/nɪvk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nivkh
IPA
/nɪvk/
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

name

The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.

Etymology

From Nivkh нивх (ņivx, “man”).

Inflected Forms

Nivkhs (plural) Nivkhi (plural)

Synonyms

Gilyak Amuric

Questions

How do you pronounce nivkh?
The recorded pronunciation is /nɪvk/.
What does nivkh mean?
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.
Where does nivkh come from?
From Nivkh нивх (ņivx, “man”).

How to pronounce nivkh

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