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Explaining Language Loss
Despite current positive attitudes of the Nivkh people towards their culture and language, Nivkh is disappearing in the face of the vast penetration of Russian in all linguistic domains and the full…
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Aspects of Nivkh morphophonology: Initial consonant alternation after sonants
The linguistic consequences of Nivkh language attrition
The paper outlines various changes that have occurred in Nivkh as a result of language attrition. Nivkh (Paleosiberian, isolate) is heavily endangered, and is being currently replaced by Russian,…
Language obsolescence in polysynthetic languages
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The Revitalization of Nivkh on Sakhalin
Nivkh1 is an isolate language of Sakhalin Island and the Amur region of the Russian Federation. The language is traditionally classified as “Paleosiberian” together with a number of other languages…
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Imperative sentences in Nivkh
How Far from Origo ? ’ or What the Distance Means for Nivkh Demonstrative Reference
Demonstratives represent the most numerous and elaborated subclass of Nivkh spatial deictic expressions, whose interpretation involves different points of reference, i.e. a speaker or various…
Sociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian language contact
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Numeral classifiers in Nivkh
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Nganasan: A fresh focus on a little known Arctic language
Nganasan is a language of considerable interest for both Uralic studies and general linguistic typology. Spoken on Taimyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia, it is not only the easternmost surviving Uralic…
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