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Aleuts in Russia are Indigenous Aleut people who live on Bering Island, one of the islands of the Commander Islands located in the Russian administrative division of Kamchatka Krai. In 2000, the Aleuts of Bering Island were recognized by Russian government decree as a small-numbered Indigenous people . [ 1 ]
In the Aleut language, they are known by the endonyms Unangan (eastern dialect) and Unangas (western dialect); both terms mean "people". [a] The Russian term "Aleut" was a general term used for both the native population of the Aleutian Islands and their neighbors to the east in the Kodiak Archipelago, who were also referred to as "Pacific Eskimos" or Sugpiat/Alutiit.
Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. Today it is prevalent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik (Kenai Peninsula), Alaska; it has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century. [1]
The Aleutian Islands (/ ə ˈ l uː ʃ ən / ⓘ ə-LOO-shən; [2] [3] Russian: Алеутские острова, romanized: Aleutskiye ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, [4] Aleutic Islands, [5] or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 ...
The Aleut consonants featured below include single Roman letters, digraphs, and one trigraph. Phonemes in parentheses are found only in Russian and English loanwords, the phoneme in italics is found only in Eastern Aleut, and the bold phonemes are a part of the standard Aleut inventory.
Indo-European–Eskimo–Aleutian Russian–Aleutian Mednyj Aleut; Indo-European–Japanese English–Japanese Bonin English, a mix of Japanese and English Creole[40] Indo-European–Pama–Nyungan English–Warlpiri Light Warlpiri; English–Gurindji Gurindji Kriol; Indo-European–Turkic Greek–Turkish Cappadocian Greek; Indo-European–Semitic
Aleutic people or Aleuts, a people who live in the transition zone between Russia and Alaska, and the Bering Sea area; Aleutic language or Aleutic, the language of the Aleuts; Aleutic Islands (Aleutics), aka Aleutian Islands, an archipelago linking Alaska to Kamchatka, the southern bound of the Bering Sea
Pages in category "Aleut" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...