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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

>500

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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

>500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

0?

Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

~2,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

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Location description

on northern Sakhalin, on both the western and the eastern coast, within Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

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on northern Sakhalin, on both the western and the eastern coast, within Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

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Other languages used

Russian

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degree of speakers' competence: increasingly rudimentary, with strong interference from Russian

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

688

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

51.7814,143.1628

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

690

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Ethnic Population

5,162

Non-monolingual speakers

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"Ethnic population: 2,000 Amur, 2,700 Sakhalin (1995 M. Krauss)."

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Russia;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~300

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Siberia

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Location description

Poranaysk County

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic Script

Other writing systems

Poranaysk County

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,080

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Ethnic Population

4,673

Non-monolingual speakers

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In 1989 the native speaker population was calculated as 23.3 % of the 4,673 over all population. Approximately 1,080.

Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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The Nivkhs live in the Far East, on the Lower Amur, on the coast of the Ohkotsk Sea on the river's estuary, and on Sakhalin Island (Yh-mif in the Nivkh language). In the administrative sense, they belong to the Khabarovsk district of the Russian Federation (the districts of Takhatin and Lower Amur), and Sakhalin region (the districts of Rybinov, Kirov, Alexandrov and Shirokopad)

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Russian alphabet

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The Nivkhs live in the Far East, on the Lower Amur, on the coast of the Ohkotsk Sea on the river's estuary, and on Sakhalin Island (Yh-mif in the Nivkh language). In the administrative sense, they belong to the Khabarovsk district of the Russian Federation (the districts of Takhatin and Lower Amur), and Sakhalin region (the districts of Rybinov, Kirov, Alexandrov and Shirokopad)

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Russian

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With the abolition of native language schools, an ethnic mix of schoolchildren became additional justification for using Russian in schooling. The trend toward bilingualism begun in the 1930s, soon gained momentum: by 1959 the figure was 23%. Russian is now by far the predominant language, and the Nivkhs are on their way from bilingualism back to monolingualism but this time with the Russian language.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

47.0,142.5

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,089

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  1. Fonetika Nivkhskogo Jazyka
    Krejnovich, E. A. 1937. "Fonetika Nivkhskogo Jazyka."
  2. Reciprocal constructions in Nivkh (Gilyak)
    Otaina, Galina A. and Vladimir P. Nedjalkov. 2007. "Reciprocal Constructions in Nivkh (Gilyak)." In Typology of reciprocal constructions, edited by Vladimir P. (with the assistance of Emma Geniusiene Nedjalkov and Zlatka Guentchéva). 1715-1750. Benjamins.
  3. Imperative sentences in Nivkh
    Gruzdeva, Ekaterina. 2001. "Imperative Sentences in Nivkh." In Typology of Imperative Constructions, edited by Victor S. Xrakovskij. 59-78. Lincom Europa.
  4. Présentation de la langue nivx, suivie de l'analyse linguistique d'un paragraphe du conte
    Beffa, Marie-Lise. 1982. "Présentation De La Langue Nivx, Suivie De L'analyse Linguistique D'un Paragraphe Du Conte." In Etudes mongoles, 13: 49-98.
  5. Grammatika nivxskogo jazyka, chast' 1
    Panfilov, V. Z. 1965. "Grammatika Nivxskogo Jazyka, Chast' 1." Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR.
  6. Nivxskij jazyk
    Gruzdeva, E. J. 1997. "Nivxskij Jazyk." In Jazyki mira: paleoaziatskie jazyki, edited by A. P. Volodin. 139-154. Indrik.
  7. Nivkh
    Mattissen, Johanna. 2001. "Nivkh." In Facts About the World's Languages, An Encyclopedia of the World's Languages: Past and Present, edited by Jane Garry and Carl Rubino. 515-519. HW Wilson.
  8. Nivxskij jazyk
    Panfilov, V. Z. 1968. "Nivxskij Jazyk." In Jazyki narodov SSSR. Volume 5: Mongol'skie, tungusko-man'chzhurskie i paleoaziatskie jazyki, edited by P. Ja. Skorik. 408-434. Nauka.
  9. Grammatika nivxskogo jazyka
    Panfilov, V. Z. 1962. "Grammatika Nivxskogo Jazyka." Nauka.
  10. Class handouts on Gilyak/Nivkh
    Austerlitz, R. 1000. "Class Handouts On Gilyak/Nivkh."
  11. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  12. Nivkh
    Gruzdeva, Ekaterina. 1998. "Nivkh." 111: Lincom Europa.
  13. Topics in Nivkh Phonology
    Shiraishi, Hidetoshi. Topics in Nivkh Phonology. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, 2006.
  14. Grammatika Nivxskogo Jazyka
    Panfilov, Vladimir Zinov'evic. 1965. "Grammatika Nivxskogo Jazyka." Moscow: Akademia Nauk SSSR.
  15. Nivkh
    Gruzdeva, Ekaterina. 1998. "Nivkh." 111: München: Lincom.
  16. UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
    Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
    http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
  17. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  18. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  19. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
    "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.
    http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook
  20. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org