Alutiiq
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Alutiiq
(linguistics) A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.
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The Alutiiq Museum has released Pinguat, a 17-minute documentary film produced in collaboration with Josh Branstetter of Branstetter Films.
The northernmost Yupik languages – Siberian Yupik and Naukanski Yupik – are linguistically only slightly closer to Inuit than is Alutiiq, which is the southernmost of the Yupik languages.
The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area.
The keynote Youth speaker at the Elders and Youth event will be Peter Squartsoff, an Alutiiq from Port Lions who works as a language mentor in Afognak, and Sam and Garrie Herman.