Nivkh girl, Far East of Siberia ❤️ Never published before.
Nivkh People live in the Far East of Siberia and are divided into two groups - Sakhalin and Amur, the population of each of these groups is about 2 thousand people. There are various theories of how the Nivkhs appeared on Sakhalin Island and in the Amur River delta, which flows into the Sea of Okhotsk. According to one of the hypotheses, the Nivkhs arrived here in antiquity from somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, but subsequently their culture was influenced by the Tungus-Manchurian peoples living along the Amur River. The patterns on the clothes of the girl, as well as her head decoration, are made, according to tradition, from fish skin. Currently, only a few masters can still make them.
Nivkhs are the mystery people. There are only a few languages in the world that linguistic scholars today cannot relate to any of the known language groups. The language spoken by the Nivhks is one of them. Unfortunately, today, according to the UNESCO classification, the language is at the last stage of disappearance: “The youngest native speakers are grandmothers, grandfathers and older, they speak the language partially and seldom.” This concerns not only the Nivkh language though...
Just the other day, the year 2019 was officially declared by the United Nations as the International Year of the Indigenous Languages of the World. According to the most conservative estimates of specialists, by the year 2100 more than half of the world's 6,700 languages will disappear. Others, more pessimistic, forecast that by the end of the 21st century up to 95% of all languages may disappear. Most endangered languages are the Indigenous people languages. Every two weeks one language disappears in the world. Along with them culture and traditions are dying ...
The World in Faces photo project by Alexander Khimushin. Diversity of traditional cultures of the world through the portraits of Indigenous people 📸🌍❤️🙏
— at Khabarovsk Krai.