Amuric
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Etymology[edit]
From the river Amur + -ic, coined by Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen in 1996.[1][2]
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Amuric
- 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.
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Adjective[edit]
Amuric (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.
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References[edit]
- ^ Juha Janhunen (1996) Manchuria: An Ethnic History[1], →ISBN
- ^ 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.”