Amuric

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From the river Amur +‎ -ic, coined by Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen in 1996.[1][2]

Proper noun[edit]

Amuric

  1. The putative language family whose only extant member is Nivkh, a group of two or three mutually unintelligible dialects normally viewed as a language isolate.
    Synonyms: Nivkh, Gilyak

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Adjective[edit]

Amuric (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Juha Janhunen (1996) Manchuria: An Ethnic History[1], →ISBN
  2. ^ Andreas Hölzl (2018) A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective[2], →ISBN, page 20:The designation Amuric has been introduced by Janhunen (1996) to refer to the language family to which Nivkh, previously called Gilyak, belongs.