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Amuric
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English
Etymology
From the river en Amur -ic, en Juha Janhunen Finnish linguist 1 1996.https://www.google.com/books/edition/Manchuria/vfJiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Amuric Manchuria: An Ethnic History 1996 Juha Janhunen 9519403841The designation Amuric has been introduced by Janhunen (1996) to refer to the language family to which Nivkh, previously called Gilyak, belongs. A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond: An ecological perspective Andreas Hölzl 2018 9783961101030 20 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/174
Proper noun
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.
en Nivkh Gilyak
Translations
French: fr amourique m
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.
Translations
French: fr amourique mf-s, fr amouriques mf-p
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