The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska's St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day. It marks the day in 1983 when ...

Vol. 82, No. 5/6, Special Issue on the Origins of the Populations of the Aleutian Islands (October-December 2010), pp. 557-581 (25 pages) The Aleut language, currently spoken along the Aleutian chain ...

DAN O’HEARN’S house in Atka, Alaska, faces east, out over the Bering Sea, the rising sun. “It’s a pleasant view,” says O’Hearn, who teaches middle school in Atka. “It’s a pleasant area. So quiet.” If ...

When Nicolai Galaktionoff passed away last month, a piece of Alaska left with him. Galaktionoff, 87, died in Unalaska on May 21, and though he'll be remembered for many great accomplishments, perhaps ...

The last native speaker of the so-called Bering dialect of the Aleut language, Vera Timoshenko, has died at the age of 93 in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka region. Yevgeny Golovko, the director of the ...

Siberian Yupik, an “international” language common to one people native to two continents, is among 12 languages receiving support this year from the Endangered Language Fund (ELF) of Yale University.

The US surprisingly does not have an official language like many other countries around the world. English and Spanish are the most commonly spoken in America, with 91.6 per cent of the population ...