Unangam Tunuu

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Unangam Tunuu is the Indigenous language of the Unangax̂ (Aleut) people of the Aleutian Islands and nearby regions of Alaska and Russia.

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Label Occurrences
Unangam Tunuu canonical 4

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aleut language
Indigenous language
language
alternateName Aleut
Unangam Tunuu (Aleut)
linked to: Aleut language
country Russia
United States
culturalRole primary language of Unangax̂ cultural expression
vehicle for traditional oral literature
endangeredStatus severely endangered
hasDialect Atkan Aleut
linked to: Unangan

Attuan Aleut
linked to: Aleut language

Eastern Aleut
linked to: Aleut
hasGlottocode aleu1260
hasLoanwordsFrom Alutiiq
English
Russian
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasOrthography standardized Latin-based orthography for some dialects
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
hasWordOrder relatively free word order
historicalStatus traditional lingua franca of the Aleutian region
ISO639-2 ale
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut language family
nativeName Unangam Tunuu
Унаӈам тунуу
numberOfSpeakers few hundred
region Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Commander Islands
Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East
relatedTo Inuktitut
Yupik languages
linked to: Gulf Yupik language
spokenBy Aleut people
linked to: Aleut

Unangax̂ people
linked to: Unangan people
subjectOf language revitalization programs
linguistic documentation projects
taughtIn community language classes in Alaska
some local schools in Aleut communities
usedBy Aleut communities in Russia
Unangax̂ communities in Alaska
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (4)

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

Alaska Natives includesLanguage Unangam Tunuu
Unangan language Unangam Tunuu
Unangan people language Unangam Tunuu
Unangam Tunuu nativeName Unangam Tunuu