Aleut
pronunciation
How to pronounce Aleut in British English:
UK [ˈæliu:t]
How to pronounce Aleut in American English:
US [əˈlut, ˈæliˌut]
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- Noun:
- a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska
- the language spoken by the Aleut people
Word Origin
- Aleut
- native of the Aleutian Islands, 1780, of unknown origin, probably from a native word. First applied by Russian explorers c. 1750, perhaps from Alut, name of a coastal village in Kamchatka [Bright]. Their name for themselves is unangax.
Example
- 1. Unlike most languages it has two parents , a combination of largely aleut vocabulary and russian verb endings .
- 2. The language 's first speakers were children with one russian parent and one aleut parent .
- 3. The language they created and passed onresembles aleut , but with russian verb endings and russian words mixed into thevocabulary .
- 4. Most languages derive from one parent language . Mednyj aleut has two parents .
- 5. Mednyj aleut , also called copper island aleut , is a puzzle for linguists attempting to classify languages .