Talk:Nivkh language

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Term
нивхгу Nivxgu

This term refers to the people, not the language. It consists of the root нивх (Nivx) 'Nivkh; human being' plus the plural suffix -гу (-gu). The Nivkh term is /mer nivx tif/, that is, 'we people language', in the Southeast Sakhalin dialect: /ñiγvn duf/ 'Nivkh language'.

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I'd like to add a section on phonology, but the sources I have are from the Rosetta Project, and don't show proper bibliographical information. These are not public domain works.

http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=NIV&doctype=phon&scale=six&version=1 http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=NIV&doctype=phon&scale=six&version=2&allpages=1

Nivkh has a three-way distinction of stops, which are found in the bilabial, dental, palatal, velar and uvular positions:
 * Voiced stops: b d ɟ g ɢ
 * Voiceless plain stops: p t c k q
 * Voiceless aspirated stops: pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ qʰ

There are four nasals, with the uvular member not represented: m n ɲ ŋ

Fricatives may be labiodental, alveolar-sibilant, velar, uvular or glottal:
 * Voiced: v z ɣ ʁ
 * Voiceless: f s x χ h

The other consonants are continuants: There are palatal and lateral members, plus two rhotics: one a voiced trill, the other a fricative similar to a voiceless form of Czech ř.
 * Glides: l j rʃ r

There are six vowels:
 * High: i u
 * Middle: e ə o
 * Low: a

Nivkh is written in Cyrillic characters, but contains several letters not encoded in the current Unicode standard. A PDF document displaying the Nivkh alphabet can be found here: http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/pdf/Nivkh.pdf http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Nivkh.pdf. (updated web address —Coroboy (talk) 18:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC))

Feel free to verify the accuracy of this listing, then post in a format acceptable for Wikipedia articles. LudwigVan 14:24, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Othography & Phonology
There needs to be a correlation between the letters and the sounds. —Coroboy (talk) 05:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)