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Gilyak (Nivkh)

Gilyaks

also: Nivkh

Indigenous people of northern Sakhalin and the lower Amur, described ethnographically by Chekhov under the period name Gilyak, now more commonly known as Nivkh.

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Sakhalin Island Nonfiction · 40 mentions

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