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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.
The historic Aleut alphabet found in both Alaska and Russia has the standard pre-1918 Russian orthography as its basis, although a number of Russian letters were used only in loanwords. In addition, the extended Cyrillic letters г̑ (г with inverted breve), ҟ, ҥ, ў, х̑ (х with inverted breve) were used to represent distinctly Aleut sounds.
As Russia was the first country to colonize Alaska, Russian words for goods or objects that were new to Native Alaskans were adopted into their native languages. For example, kofe (coffee) and chay (tea) are Russian words that have been added to the vocabularies of the Unangan (Aleut), Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), and Yup'ik .
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, [3] Sugcestun, [4] Suk, [4] Supik, [3] [4] Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, [4] Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language spoken in the western and southwestern Alaska, but is considered a distinct language.
Eskaleut languages are spoken in Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland The Eskaleut ( / ɛ ˈ s k æ l i uː t / e- SKAL -ee-oot ), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan [ 1 ] languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
The Yupik languages (/ ˈ juː p ɪ k / [1]) are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka.The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one of the languages may understand the general idea of a conversation of speakers of another of the languages.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...