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Vinony's link graph records 548 inbound references to Nivkh people, and connects out to Nanai, Oroks and endonym and exonym.
It sits within the topics Ethnic groups in Japan, Ethnic groups in Siberia and Fishing communities in Russia.
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Key facts
- Russia khabarovsk krai 2 452 2002 sakhal
- 4,652 (2010)
- Ukraine
- 584 (2001)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Native language
- Russian
- Religion
- paganism
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Hokkaidō
- Population
- 4500
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- Commons category
- Nivkh people
- topic's main category
- Category:Nivkh
- language used
- Japanese
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nivkh (also known as Nivkhs and formerly as Nivkhi, Gilyak or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu around the Amur, or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun in East Sakhalin; "the people"), are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland. Historically, they may have inhabited parts of Manchuria.
Settlements with Nivkh populations according to the Russian Census of 2002 (excluding Khabarovsk, Poronaysk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). Settlement of Nivkhs in the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements in%, 2010 census
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nivkh people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.