Amuric

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.

Synonyms

All synonyms
gilyaknivkh

Etymology

From the river Amur + -ic, coined by Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen in 1996.

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