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 work on the Amur dialect primer was led by Taksami Čhuner Mikhailovich.Mikhailovich et al, 1982.
Mikhailovich, T. Č., Nikolaevna, P. M. & Mikhailovna, V. A. (1982). Букварь: для подготовительного класса нивхских школ: амурский диалект [ABC Book: for the Preparatory Class of Nivkh Schools: Amur Dialect]. Prosveshchenie. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from e.nlrs.ru
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