Talk:Mednyj Aleut language

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Cooper Island Aleut. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 1#Cooper Island Aleut until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:07, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

It is not extinct yet!

The dialect mentioned in the reference used in the article is Bering one (of Aleut proper where the correct statement is provided) not Mednyj: "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. "A very close variant of the Aleut language is preserved on the (U.S.) Aleutian Islands. There are several speakers living on the island of Atka, but in Russia, as far as we know, there is nobody now who can speak this language. And the dialect on the American side very much differs" from the Bering dialect, Golovko said.".

Mednyj Aleut is still spoken by two speakers as of 2022, 81 and 83 years old. --Koryakov Yuri (talk) 21:36, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Both speakers have died

Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-last-aleut-speaker-dies/32066540.html 77.75.179.1 (talk) 22:35, 5 October 2022 (UTC)