Aleut language

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The Aleut language is an Indigenous Eskimo–Aleut language traditionally spoken by the Aleut people of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and parts of Russia, now considered endangered.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Aleut language canonical 5
Attuan Aleut 2
Unangam Tunuu (Aleut language) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eskimo–Aleut language
Indigenous language of North America
endangered language
language
alternativeName Aleutic
Unangan language
Unangax̂ language
closelyRelatedTo Inuit languages
Yupik languages
linked to: Gulf Yupik language
documentedBy linguist Georg von der Gabelentz
linguist Knut Bergsland
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Aleut people
linked to: Aleut
family Eskimo–Aleut language family
hasCaseSystem reduced nominal case system compared to Eskimo languages
hasDialect Atkan Aleut
linked to: Aleut

Attuan Aleut
linked to: Aleut language

Eastern Aleut
linked to: Aleut
hasGlottocode aleu1260
hasGrammaticalCategory absolutive-like case
relative-like case
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
polysynthetic tendencies
hasNumberCategory dual
plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature relatively small consonant inventory
vowel length distinction
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
languageCodeISO639-1 (none)
languageCodeISO639-2 ale
languageCodeISO639-3 ale
nativeName Unangam tunuu
linked to: Unangam Tunuu
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Inuit languages
Yupik languages
region Bering Sea
North Pacific Ocean
spokenIn Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Commander Islands
Russia
United States
subfamilyOf Eskimo–Aleut language family
subjectOf documentation projects
language revitalization programs
usedBy Aleut communities in Alaska
Aleut communities in Russia
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Atka Island hasLanguage Aleut language
Unangam Tunuu alternateName Unangam Tunuu (Aleut)
linked to: Aleut language
Unangam Tunuu hasDialect Attuan Aleut
linked to: Aleut language
Unalaska indigenousLanguage Unangam Tunuu (Aleut language)
linked to: Aleut language
Aleut language hasDialect Attuan Aleut
linked to: Aleut language
Ivan Veniaminov languageWritten Aleut language