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Name: Gilyak
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Nivkh; Nivkhi
Spoken in: Russia
Number of speakers: 690. Ethnic population: 2,000 Amur, 2,700 Sakhalin (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 5,162 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 688 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 1089 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: niv
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup: Asian Language Isolate (asis)
Child Dialects: North Sakhalin Gilyak; Sakhalin (niv-nor) Amur (1ot) East Sakhalin Gilyak; Sakhalin (niv-eas)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable

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