DAY 088 Alutiiq ALEUT #me

Weather report
Unalaska Island
Sunday 7:00 AM
Snow
25°F
Precipitation: 88%
Humidity: 86%
Wind: 12 mph

Thank you – Quyanaa
Happy birthday – Raazdinyaam Ugutaa
Good morning – Uvlaasatkun Uvlaalluataq
Good afternoon – Unnusatkun Unnuksraalluataq

Aleut Language (Unangan, Unangax, Aleutian, Alutiiq) Language: Aleut is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken along the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska and islands off the coast of Siberia, and in the Prince William Sound. Fewer than 200 people in Alaska still speak the Aleut language today. Aleut is/was spoken from the Alaska Peninsula through Umnak Island and on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands, on the Pribilof Islands north of the Aleutians, and on Bering Island and Prince William Sound.

My Uppa was fluent in the language. I am not. He was born on an island in the Prince William Sound during the summer salmon fish feast.

Something is wrong with the world when sons and daughters do not grow up learning the language of their mom and dad. Take note. It did not have to be this way.

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