Following the 1979 presentation of a new alphabet for the Nivkh language by the Russian Socialist Republic Ministry of Education, school primers were published for the Sakhalin Island and Amur dialects.Ŝetinina, 2013. The Sakhalin Island dialect primer was written by V. Sangi and G. Otaina.Sangi & Otaina, 1981.
Sangi, V. & Otaina, G. (1981). Ньиғвӈгун буквар̌ [Nyigovgun alphabet book]. Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from twirpx.com
Ŝetinina, G. S. (2013). Развитие письменности малочисленных народов Севера. Обучение детей-нивхов родному языку [Development of the Writing System of the Indigenous Peoples of the North: Teaching Nivkh Children Their Native Language]. ICRAP. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from web.archive.org