Nivkh and Ainu
Abstract Nivkh and Ainu, together with Korean and Japanese (Ch. 18), are geographically adjacent to one another in the Far East, but they are probably genetically unrelated to each other. None of the four languages, for that matter, is known to be related to any other language of the world, and they...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2007
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199266623.003.0019 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52484968/isbn-9780199266623-book-part-19.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Nivkh and Ainu, together with Korean and Japanese (Ch. 18), are geographically adjacent to one another in the Far East, but they are probably genetically unrelated to each other. None of the four languages, for that matter, is known to be related to any other language of the world, and they continue to be regarded each as an isolate. As a matter of fact Nivkh has been classified in linguistic literature as one of the Palaeoasiatic or Palaeosiberian languages together with Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Yukaghir, Ket (Ch. 20), etc., which do not constitute a genetic family but are simply a geographical group of those languages in Siberia assumed to have been spoken long before the dominant language groups such as Uralic, Mongolic, Tungusic (Ch. 20), and Turkic advanced into the area. |
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