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Also called:
Unangam Tunuu
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Aleut language

Also known as: Unangam Tunuu language
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Aleut language, one of two branches of the Eskimo-Aleut languages (Eskaleut languages). Two mutually intelligible dialects survive: Eastern Unangam Tunuu (Eastern Aleut) and Atkan Unangam Tunuu (Atkan Aleut). A third dialect, Attu Unangam Tunuu (Attu Aleut), now extinct in Alaska, survives on Bering Island (one of the Komandor Islands) in a creolized form that incorporates Russian verbal inflections. Unangam Tunuu is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula through Umnak Island and on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands, on the Pribilof Islands north of the Aleutians, and on Bering Island.

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