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North America
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150-160

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

2,200

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Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Alaska

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Location description

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

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

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

70-100

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Year of info

2003

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Alaska

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Location description

Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

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Other writing systems

Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

305

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

55.171,166.094

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150-160

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Ethnic Population

2,200

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Alaska

Coordinates

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Location description

Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Alaska Peninsula west of Stepovak Bay

Government support

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Other writing systems

Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Alaska Peninsula west of Stepovak Bay

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Alaska

Coordinates

54.7212,-164.4433; 52.2304,-174.1978

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

490

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

1,024

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More about speakers

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).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

USA; Russia;

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Location description

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

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

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Other languages used

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

367

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic alphabet

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Other languages used

Russian, English

Domains of other languages

Ordinary means of communication

More on context

"American Aleuts speak English, while the Asiatic Aleuts had been russified"

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

155

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

2,500

Non-monolingual speakers

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150 Alaska, 5 Russia. Population: 2,300 Alaska, 200 Russia

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Alaska; Russia

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Year of info

2005

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54.0,-166.0

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Native Speakers Worldwide

490

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