Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies
Vera Timoshenko (left) and Gennady Yakovlev were experts on the Aleut language, culture, and history.
The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region.
The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut district of the Kamchatka region, Galina Korolyova, said on October 5 that Yakovlev died in his native village of Nikolskoye on Bering Island.
Korolyov also spoke the so-called Medny dialect of Aleut.
Until recently there were only two known native speakers of the Aleut language in Russia -- Yakovlev and Vera Timoshenko. Timoshenko, who spoke the so-called Bering dialect of the Aleut language, died in March 2021 at the age of 93.
Yakovlev and Timoshenko were experts on the Aleut language, culture, and history who actively consulted Russian and foreign researchers and linguists.
Aleut, the sole language in the Aleut branch of the Eskimo-Aleut linguistic stem, used to be widely spoken by indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaskan Peninsula.
According to experts, there are fewer than 100 to 150 remaining active Aleut speakers.
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Where is the Aleut language spoken?
The Aleut language (Aleut: Unangam Tunuu, Унаӈам тунуу) is indigenous to Alaska by the Aleut people. Here are pictures of where in Alaska the languages are spoken, courtesy of wikipedia.
On a global scale, this means that Aleut is spoken in a part of the USA, a smaller part of Russia and an even smaller part of Canada.
Dialects
Today, the general consensus is that there are two groups of Aleutian dialects that remain: Eastern Aleut, Atka Aleut (spoken on the islands of Atka and Bering). There is also the extinct dialect of Western Aleut. Speakers of all surviving dialects can understand eachother.
Writing system
There are two alphabets used for Aleut: 1) a variation of the Cyrillic Alphabet and 2) a variation of the Roman alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet is primarily used in the Bering dialect of the Atka Aleut dialect group, which can be attributed to its' proximity to Russia and that it is the dialect with the most Russian loanwords.
Conservation Status
Aleut has been certified by UNESCO as a Critically Endangered Language. There are only 100-150 people left who actively speak the language in their daily lives
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