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--- languages:aleut_in_russia_and_canada [2024/10/16 15:47] – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
+++ languages:aleut_in_russia_and_canada [2024/10/16 16:02] (current) – [Speaker numbers] ydwine
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 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.)).
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 <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.)).