Also Known As:
Unangan, Unangam Tunuu, алеутский язык, Унáҥам Тунý, Унаңан, Unanghan, Amara, Aleutian, Ungangan, Unangany, アレウト語, アリュート語
Dialects & Varieties
- dialects: Attu (Western)
- Atka and Unalaska (Eastern). The present-day Aleuts are bilingual. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- 2008)
The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
367
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"American Aleuts speak English, while the Asiatic Aleuts had been russified"
Location and Context
Countries
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Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, English
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
Ordinary means of communication
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic alphabet
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
A list of sea lion parts in (Western) Aleut and English translations.
This deposit consists of audio and video recordings of speakers of Unangam Tunuu (Aleut language), s
Language Aleut (Western). ale_western_word-list_1996_01.html, entries: 1 - 35