Mednyj Aleut language

Mednyj Aleut
Native toRussia
RegionCommander Islands
Extinct5 October 2022, with the death of Gennady Yakovlev[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mud
Glottologmedn1235
ELPCopper Island Aleut

Mednyj Aleut (also called Copper Island Creole or Copper Island Aleut[3]) is an extinct mixed language spoken on Bering Island.

Mednyj Aleut is characterized by a blending of Russian and Aleut (primarily Attu) elements in most components of the grammar, but most profoundly in the verbal morphology.[3] The Aleut component comprises the majority of the vocabulary, all the derivational morphology, part of the simple sentence syntax, nominal inflection and certain other grammatical means. The Russian components comprise verbal inflection, negation, infinitive forms, part of the simple sentence syntax and all of the compound sentence syntax.[4]

  1. ^ "Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies". RadioFreeEurope. 2022-10-05.
  2. ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 7.
  3. ^ a b Campbell, Lyle; Bright, William O. (14 July 2016). "North American Indian languages". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  4. ^ Donald Winford (10 January 2003). An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9780631212515.