Alutiiq

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Alutiiq is an Indigenous language of the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) people of south-central coastal Alaska, particularly Kodiak Island and the surrounding regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eskimo–Aleut language
Indigenous language
language
alternativeName Pacific Gulf Yupik
Sugpiaq
Alutiiq
surface form: Sugpiaq language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Central Alaskan Yup’ik
surface form: Central Alaskan Yupʼik

Naukan Yupik
ethnicGroup Alutiiq self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alutiiq people

Sugpiaq people
hasDialect Alutiiq self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chugach Alutiiq

Alutiiq self-linksurface differs
surface form: Koniag Alutiiq
hasLinguisticFeature case marking on nouns
derivational suffixes
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrast
uvular consonants
vowel length contrast
ISO639-3 ems
languageBranch Central Alaskan Yup’ik
surface form: Yupik
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
surface form: Eskimo–Aleut
region Gulf of Alaska
Kodiak Island
surface form: Kodiak Archipelago

Cook Inlet
surface form: Lower Cook Inlet

Prince William Sound
surface form: Prince William Sound region
revitalizationEffort community language classes
dictionary projects
immersion programs
orthography standardization
spokenIn Alaska
Southcentral Alaska
surface form: Kenai Peninsula

Kodiak Island
Prince William Sound
United States of America
surface form: United States

south-central coastal Alaska
status endangered language
subclassOf Yugtun
surface form: Yupik language
usedBy Alutiiq communities
usedIn ceremonies
cultural education
songs
traditional stories
writingSystem Latin script

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Perryville, Alaska indigenousLanguage Alutiiq
this entity surface form: Alutiiq language
Chenega Bay knownFor Alutiiq
this entity surface form: Alutiiq culture
Chenega Bay languageTraditionallySpoken Alutiiq
this entity surface form: Alutiiq language
southern Alaska hasIndigenousLanguage Alutiiq
subject surface form: Southern Alaska
this entity surface form: Alutiiq language