Nivkh

  1. 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.
  2. Proper noun.  The language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.

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