How do you use Aleut in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like aleutian or indian, plus the exact meaning.
Aleut meaning
Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Using Aleut
- The main meaning on this page is: Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
- Useful related words include: aleutian, indian, american indian, red indian.
- In the example corpus, aleut often appears in combinations such as: the aleut, aleut people, eskimo aleut.
Context around Aleut
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aleut
- In this selection, "aleut" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eskimo, recognized, century, people, although and family stand out and add context to how "aleut" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 20th century aleut leader barabaras and aleut arts are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aleut" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aleut
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aleut families used it when traveling among the islands. (9 words)
Further reading *Black, Lydia T. Aleut Art: Unangam Aguqaadangin. (9 words)
Aleut was written in the Cyrillic script beginning in 1829. (10 words)
Language While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the United States and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by an estimated 150 people in the United States and 5 people in Russia. (40 words)
Most of the Aleut people in the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland Inuit relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey—primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas. (34 words)
Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik, Меновщиков 1964: 42 but even the grammar has several peculiarities distinct not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
There is no reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo–Aleut, although the existence of the Eskimo–Aleut family is generally accepted.
The term "Eskimo" is also used in linguistic or ethnographic works to denote the larger branch of Eskimo–Aleut languages, the smaller branch being Aleut.
Della Trumble, spokeswoman for King Cove Corp., made up of members of two federally recognized Aleut tribes, called the ruling disappointing.
The island of Attu had 45 Aleut inhabitants, along with a weatherman who was killed, and his teacher wife taken prisoner with the Aleuts.
According to Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, barabaras keep "occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds common to the area".
According to what Aleut people said, in an account recorded by Japanese castaways and published in 2004, otters were decreasing year by year.
Aleut arts are practiced and taught throughout the state of Alaska.
Aleut families used it when traveling among the islands.
Aleut was written in the Cyrillic script beginning in 1829.
Before the 19th century, piercings and tattoos were very common among the Aleut people, especially among women.
Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleut in basketry.
Full-blooded Aleuts still exist and are growing in number, and there are also people who may be part Russian or other descent but solely identify as Aleut.
Further reading *Black, Lydia T. Aleut Art: Unangam Aguqaadangin.
Indigenous languages The Book of Common Prayer has also been translated into these North American indigenous languages: Cowitchan, Cree, Haida, Ntlakyapamuk, Slavey, Eskimo-Aleut, Dakota, Delaware, Mohawk, Ojibwe.
It was from the baidarka that Aleut men would stand on the water to hunt from the sea.
Language While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the United States and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by an estimated 150 people in the United States and 5 people in Russia.
Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik, Меновщиков 1964: 42 but even the grammar has several peculiarities distinct not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut.
Most of the Aleut people in the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland Inuit relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey—primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas.
Most of the Native elders speak Aleut, but it is very rare for an everyday person to speak the language fluently.
Relationship with humans The Aleut and Ainu people of the North Pacific traditionally hunted tufted puffin for food and feathers.
Common combinations with aleut
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: