Nivkh (Gilyak): Languages of the World/Materials 111. Edited by U. J. Lüders. by GRUZDEVA, Ekaterina - 1998

Munich: Lincom Europa, 1998. P/b., 66pp.. Generally a good tight copy but with light wear and occasional neat annotations to text and lower cover. Nivkh (otherwise known as Gilyak) is considered genetically isolated, though often classified as Paleosiberian. Typologically, Nivkh is an agglutinative language with elements of morphological fusion and some analytical features. Spoken by some 4,500 people residing on the Amur River and on Sakhalin Island.