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Name:
Gilyak
Alternate Names:
Nivkh; Nivkhi; Nivkhe (Amour) (in French); Nivkhe (Sakhaline) (in French); Nivejí (Sajalín) (in Spanish)
Spoken in:
Russia
Number of speakers:
690. Ethnic population: 2,000 Amur, 2,700 Sakhalin (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 5,162
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
688
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
1089
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
niv
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
Asian Language Isolate (asis)
Child Dialects:
North Sakhalin Gilyak; Sakhalin (niv-nor)
Amur (niv-amu)
East Sakhalin Gilyak; Sakhalin (niv-eas)
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Map of Gilyak
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