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    (in Aleut Alaxsxa, the origin of the state name Alaska). Aleut is the sole language in the Aleut branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family. The Aleut language...
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    The Eskaleut (/ɛˈskæliuːt/ e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North...
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    Unangam Tunuu, the Aleut language. There are 13 federally recognized Aleut tribes in the Aleut Region of Alaska. In 2000, Aleuts in Russia were recognized...
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  • Mednyj Aleut (also called Copper Island Creole or Copper Island Aleut) was a mixed language spoken on Bering Island. Mednyj Aleut is characterized by a...
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  • Proto-Eskaleut, Proto-Eskimo–Aleut or Proto-Inuit-Yupik-Unangan[citation needed] is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Eskaleut languages, family containing...
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  • of the Eskimo languages. It was spoken by the ancestors of the Yupik and Inuit peoples. It is linguistically related to the Aleut language, and both descend...
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    is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 57,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such...
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    romanized: Aleutskiye ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands...
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    Eskimo–Aleut language. It was spoken in and around the village of Sireniki (Сиреники) in Chukotka Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The language...
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  • creole languages lexified by them. North America is home to many language families and some language isolates. In the Arctic north, the Eskimo–Aleut languages...
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    Inuit languages constitute a branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family. They are closely related to the Yupik languages and more remotely to Aleut. These...
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    Sirenik, has been extinct since 1997. The Yupik languages are in the family of Eskaleut languages. The Aleut and Proto-Eskimoan diverged around 2000 BCE;...
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  • Algonquian languages Caddoan languages Eskimo–Aleut languages Iroquoian languages Na-Dene languages Salishan languages Siouan languages Uto-Aztecan languages Wakashan...
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  • distinct language. The ethnonyms of the Sugpiaq-Alutiiq are a predicament. Aleut, Alutiiq, Sugpiaq, Russian, Pacific Eskimo, Unegkuhmiut, and Chugach Eskimo...
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    at 96". The Spokesman. Spokane, Washington. "Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies". RadioFreeEurope. 5 October 2022. S.A.P, El Mercurio...
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    St. Lawrence Island. The language is part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. In the United States, the Alaska Native Language Center identified about...
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  • or indigenously Yugtun) is one of the languages of the Yupik family, in turn a member of the Eskimo–Aleut language group, spoken in western and southwestern...
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    is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around...
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    one of its six source languages, weighed for the number of Russian speakers in 1985. Medny Aleut language, an extinct mixed language that was spoken on Bering...
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    The Eskimo–Uralic hypothesis posits that the Uralic and Eskimo–Aleut language families belong to a common macrofamily. It is not generally accepted by...
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    Siouan languages include the closely related Winnebago, and the more distant Crow, among others. Central Alaskan Yup'ik is an Eskimo–Aleut language with...
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    Alaska (category Articles containing Aleut-language text)
    it was used to refer to the Alaska Peninsula. It was derived from an Aleut-language idiom, alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Aleut-language text)
    Peter; Dirks, Moses; Wegelin, Jacob (2001) [1999]. "Phonetic structures of Aleut". Journal of Phonetics. 29 (3). Elsevier: 231–271. doi:10.1006/jpho.2001...
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    Ĝ (category Aleut language)
    In Haida, a language isolate, the letter ĝ was sometimes used to represent pharyngeal voiced fricative /ʕ/. In Aleut, an Eskaleut language, ĝ represents...
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    Comparative Eskimo dictionary: With Aleut cognates, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center Naukan Yupik language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator...
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  • Participle (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    going to plant (i.e. erect) a grave(stone)". Sirenik language, an extinct Eskimo–Aleut language, had separate sets of adverbial participles and adjectival...
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    Alaska Native religion (category Articles containing Inuktitut-language text)
    Yupik languages constitute one branch within the Eskimo–Aleut language family and the Aleut language is another. (The Sirenik Eskimo language is sometimes...
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  • Eskimo (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the definition...
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  • (category Aleut language)
    the modern orthography of the Aleut language and in the current Alaska Native Language Center alphabet of the Haida language. In both cases, it represents...
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  • state. These can be divided into four separate families; the Eskimo–Aleut languages, Athabaskan, Haida, and Tsimshian. They all share similar characteristics...
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