Amuric
English
Etymology
From the river Amur + -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#AMURIC, coined by Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen in 1996Category:English terms coined by Juha Janhunen#AMURICCategory:English coinages#AMURIC.[1][2]
Proper noun
AmuricCategory:English lemmas#AMURICCategory:English proper nouns#AMURICCategory:English uncountable nouns#AMURICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AMURICCategory:Pages with entries#AMURICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#AMURIC
- The putative language family whose only extant member is Nivkh, a group of two or three mutually unintelligible dialects normally viewed as a language isolate.
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Adjective
Amuric (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#AMURICCategory:English adjectives#AMURICCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#AMURICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AMURICCategory:Pages with entries#AMURICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#AMURIC
- Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.
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References
- ↑ Juha Janhunen (1996), Manchuria: An Ethnic History, →ISBN
- ↑ Andreas Hölzl (2018), A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective, →ISBN, page 20: “The designation Amuric has been introduced by Janhunen (1996) to refer to the language family to which Nivkh, previously called Gilyak, belongs.”
