(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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Aleutian Islands (redirect from Aleut Islands)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Eskimo–Aleut family and are closely related to the Inuit languages of Canada and Alaska. Illustration 1 shows the locations of the different Inuit languages...
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Central Alaskan Yupʼik (redirect from Central Yup'ik language)
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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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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Cyrillic alphabets (redirect from Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet)
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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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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Altaic, and Eskimo–Aleut, among others. Greenberg also assigns Nivkh and Yukaghir, sometimes classed as "Paleosiberian" languages, to the Eurasiatic family...
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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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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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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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Eskimo (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, Aleuts, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the definition...
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Aleksey Yachmenev (category Aleut people)
the Aleut. His son, John Yatchmeneff, wrote down the texts for John P. Harrington's 1941 work on the Aleut language. Bergsland, Knut (1994). Aleut Dictionary...
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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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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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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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Quebec (redirect from Languages of Quebec)
the Inuit–Aleut language family (Nunavimmiutitut, an Inuktitut dialect spoken by the Inuit of Nord-du-Québec), and the Iroquoian language family (Mohawk...
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ferrets Aleutian Islands, a chain of islands in Alaska Aleut language, the language of the Aleut people Alaska Peninsula, also called the Aleutian Peninsula...
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