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Name: Copper Island Aleut Type: Language Alternate Names: Aleut, Mednyj; Medny; Copper; Attuan; Copper Island Attuan; Creolized Attuan; Copper Island Aleut Creole Spoken in: Russia Number of speakers: 10 (Krauss 1995) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 10 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 10 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: mud Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Eskimo-Aleut Parent Subgroup: Aleut-Russian Mixed Language (arml) Brief Description: "Copper Island Aleut is a mixed language (Aleut and Russian) originally spoken in the village of Preobrazhenskoye on Copper (Mednyy) Island, Kamchatka Province, Russia. The first settlers on Copper Island in the early nineteenth century were Russians, soon followed by Aleuts brought from the island of Attu. By 1969 the entire community had been relocated to the village of Nikol'skoye on Bering Island. The language is critically endangered, and only a handful of elderly speakers remain. Copper Island Aleut is a true mixed language. Its lexicon, nominal inflection and derivational morphology are derived largely from Aleut, while its verbal inflection and syntax are basically Russian." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13 "Mednyj Aleut was a mixed language spoken on Mednyj Island, off the coast of Kamchatka, in the nineteenth and twentieth century by people of mixed Russian-Aleut descent. The language contained vocabulary from both language; in noun forms mostly employ Aleut morphology, while in verb forms, Russian inflectional endings were used." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 26

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered