Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- languages:aleut_in_russia_and_canada [2024/10/16 15:39] – [Demographics] ydwine
+++ languages:aleut_in_russia_and_canada [2025/06/18 09:41] (current) – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 ==== Language vitality according to: ====
-^ [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO]]  ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ale/|Ethnologue]]  ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/671|Endangered Languages]]  ^ [[https://glottolog.org/| Glottolog]] ^
+^  [[https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/aleut|UNESCO]]   ^  [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ale/|Ethnologue]]  ^  [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/671|Endangered Languages]]  ^  [[https://glottolog.org/| Glottolog]]  ^
-| {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | Critically endangered}}|{{ :endangerment:black.png?nolink | Extinct}}| {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink | severely Endangered}}   | {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink | shifting  }}                                                  |
+| {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink | Definitely endangered}}|{{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | Endangered}}| {{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | Severely Endangered}}   | {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink | Shifting  }}                                                  |
+<sup> Click [[manual:colour_codes|here]] for a full overview of the language vitality colour codes. </sup>
 ==== Linguistic aspects: =====
   * Classification: Language Family: Eskimo-Aleut → Language Group: Aleut.See [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/eski1264|arag1246]] at [[http://glottolog.org/|Glottolog]] for more information.
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 Aleut is spoken in the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula west of Stepovak
 Bay with an ethnic population of 2.200 people ((Endangered Language Projects. //Aleut//. (n.d.). Retrieved from [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/671]])). Varieties:
-  * Attu (Western)
   * Atka
+    * areas: Atka and Bering Island
   * Unalaska (Eastern)
+    * areas: Alaskan Peninsula, Unalaska, Belkofski, Akutan, the Pribilof Islands, Kashega and Nikolsk
+  * Attu (Western).
+    * areas: Attu.
+    * Western Aleut as marked as extinct ((Glottolog. (n.d.). Dialect: Western Aleut. //Glottolog.// [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/west2616]].))((Bergsland, K. (1997). //Aleut Grammar = Unangam Tunuganaan Achixaasix̂//. Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.)).
@@ Line 37: / Line 42: @@
 <sup> The map shows the language area of the Aleut languages ((Noahedits. (2019). //Aleut map// [image]. Wikemedia Commons. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aleut_map.svg]].)).</sup>
 ==== Speaker numbers ====
-The numbers of speakers are estimated between 150-160 worldwide ((Endangered Language Projects. //Aleut//. (n.d.). Retrieved from [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/671]])).
+For the Aleut languages, speaker number estimations range from 70 to 490 speakers ((Endangered Language Projects. //Aleut//. (n.d.). Retrieved October 16, 2024, from [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/671]])). Western Aleut is considered to be extinct ((Glottolog. (n.d.). Dialect: Western Aleut. //Glottolog.// [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/west2616]].))((Bergsland, K. (1997). //Aleut Grammar = Unangam Tunuganaan Achixaasix̂//. Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.)).