Atkan Aleut language
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Atkan Aleut is a dialect of the Aleut language, which is part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. This language is spoken in the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, and the Pribilof Islands. Atkan Aleut, along with Eastern Aleut, are the two mutually intelligible dialects that survive today. A third dialect, Attu Aleut, is extinct in Alaska but survives in a creolized form on Bering Island in Russia.1
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