Aleut

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Alaskan peninsula, east Aleutian Islands, and Pribilofs (Eastern Aleut dialect); Aleutian chain, Atka island (Western Aleut dialect).

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Language NameAleut

User Population

No known L1 speakers in Russian Federation (2021 A. Ermanov). The last fluent speak of Aleut in the Russian Federation, Vera Timoshenko, died in 2021. Ethnic population: 200 (Dorais 2010).

Location

Kamchatka krai: Komandor Islands, Bering island, Nikolskoye settlement.

Alternate Names

Unangam tunnu, Unangan, Unangany, Unanghan

Dialects

Beringov (Atkan, Bering).

Language Status

9 (Dormant).

Language Use

Shifted to Russian [rus].

Other Comments

Non-indigenous. Different from Medny Aleut (Copper Island Aleut) [mud]. From 1820 to 1840 dozens of Aleut families were brought from other islands to Komandor Islands. Until 1960s, 2 villages on Bering and Medny islands. 1950s-1980s children sent to boarding schools by the state. Christian.

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