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- noun A member of an
indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur Riverestuary inRussia 's Khabarovsk Krai. - proper noun The
language isolate spoken by the Nivkh.
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Examples
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In Siberia’s Nivkh language, each number can be said 26 ways, depending on what is being counted.
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