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Amuric

Amuric 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.

Proper noun

Amuric

  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:
    Nivkh, Gilyak

Adjective

Amuric (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Amuric language family.

Synonyms of Amuric

Origin of Amuric

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

Questions about Amuric

What does Amuric mean?
Amuric means 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.
What part of speech is Amuric?
Amuric can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Amuric in the dictionary

  1. Amurdag
  2. amurensin
  3. amurensoside
  4. Amurian
  5. Amurians
  6. Amuric
  7. Amurrica
  8. Amurrican
  9. Amurricans
  10. Amurrite
  11. Amurrites

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