Endangered Languages Project - Aleut

Aleut

^{[aka Unangan, Unangam Tunuu, алеутский язык]}

Classification: Eskimo-Aleut

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endangered

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,
CLASSIFICATION		Eskimo-Aleut, Aleut
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic alphabet
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ale
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		dialects: Attu (Western) Atka and Unalaska (Eastern). The present-day Aleuts are bilingual. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire 2008)
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “"Aleut Conversation Corpus" HRELP Abstract” . Taff, Alice (2003)

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
70-100
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: USA, Alaska

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Ethnic population
367

DATE OF INFO: 1935

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "American Aleuts speak English, while the Asiatic Aleuts had been russified"
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic alphabet

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
150-160
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
2,200

PLACES: USA, Alaska

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Indigenous to the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula west of Stepovak
Bay.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
305
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
490
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
150-160
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
2,200

PLACES: USA, Alaska

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Alaska Peninsula west of Stepovak Bay

PLACES: USA, Alaska

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
490
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,024
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
300 in United States (Krauss 1995). Data for the ethnic population comes from the 2000 US census.

150 in United States (Krauss 2007). Population total all countries: 500. Ethnic population: 1,030 (2000 census) (2013).

PLACES: USA; Russia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Western Aleut dialect: Aleutian chain, Atka island; Eastern Aleut dialect: east Aleutian Islands, Pribilofs, and Alaskan peninsula.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Western Aleut dialect: Aleutian chain, Atka island; Eastern Aleut dialect: east Aleutian Islands, Pribilofs, and Alaskan peninsula.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
155
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
2,500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
150 Alaska, 5 Russia. Population: 2,300 Alaska, 200 Russia

DATE OF INFO: 2007

PLACES: USA, Alaska; Russia

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

54.7212,-164.4433; 52.2304,-174.1978

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Information from: “Endangered Languages of the United States” (108-130) . Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell (2010) , Christopher Moseley · UNESCO