List of Nivkh settlements
Encyclopedia
List of notable Nivkh (Gilyak) settlements in Sakhalin Island and the Lower Amur River. Prior to 1905 settlements are listed from north to south in their geographical categories with most settlement names in the Nivkh language
or in the only know given Russian
name.
Nivkh language
Nivkh or Gilyak is a language spoken in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun , along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin. 'Gilyak' is the Manchu appellation...
or in the only know given Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
name.
Nivkh concentrations after 1960s Soviet resettlement
- Nogliki- Largest modern Nivkh Settlement with a Nivkh population of 749 with 26 more residing in the nearby Nyivo Bay comprising 5.2% of the Nogliki population of 14,830 as of 2000.
- Okha
- Nekrasovka
- Nikolaevsk- In the Amur River estuary of Khabarovsk KraiKhabarovsk KraiKhabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...
. - Rybnoye
- Chir-Unvd
- Poronaisk
- Yuzhno-SakhalinskYuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Demographics:Most residents are ethnic Russians, but there also exists a sizable population of Koreans. Of the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans, half are estimated to live in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, comprising roughly 12% of the city's population...
- Administrative center of Sakhalin OblastSakhalin OblastSakhalin Oblast is a federal subject of Russia comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.The oblast has an area of 87,100 km² and a population of 546,695...
in South region of the Island.
West Sakhalin Coast
- Tamlavo
- Ngyl'vo
- Valuevo
- Langry
- Chingai
- Pyrki
- Pogibi
- Uandi
- Ytyk'
- Viakhtu- Political exile Lev Sternberg began his ethnographic expeditions in Viakhtu on the Nivkhs and OroksOroksOroks are a people in the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Orok language belongs to the Southern group of the Tungusic language family and is unwritten...
where he soon crossed Sakhalin to the Tym' River to the black gilyak clans. - Khoe
- Tangi
- Arkovo
- Port Aleksandrovsk
East Sakhalin Coast
- Khankes'
- Urkdt'
- Pil'tun (island)
- Kakervo
- Kharkor'vo
- Chaivo
- Lad'vo
- Tyrmyts'
- Vachi
- Mil'kovo
- Tagry
- Lub'vo
- Lung'yo
- Nappi
- Ngamb'vo
External links
- The Nivkhs from The Red BookThe Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian EmpireThe Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire is a book about the small nations of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russia and some other post-Soviet states of today...