Alaskan Russian
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Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. Today it is prevalent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik (Kenai Peninsula), Alaska; it has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century.[1]
Dialects
Kodiak Russian was natively spoken on Afognak Strait until the Great Alaskan earthquake and tsunami of 1964. It is now moribund, spoken by only a handful of elderly people, and is virtually undocumented.[2]
Ninilchik Russian is better studied and more vibrant; it developed from the Russian colonial settlement of Ninilchik in 1847.[3][4]
Vocabulary
Ninilchik Russian vocabulary is clearly Russian with a few borrowings from English and Alaskan native languages.
Below are some examples of Alaskan Russian from the village of Ninilchik. All of them are identical to modern Russian, except from two words from the last one:[4]
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'This is my house'. (Modern Russian: Это мой дом.)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'She is very pretty'. (Она очень красивая.)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'She loves us'. (Она нас любит.)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'This is my husband'. (Это мой муж.)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". 'My God!' (Боже мой!)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'He is my brother'. (Он мой брат.)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".. 'I have a little Russian blood'. (У меня немного русской крови.)
References
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- ↑ Evgeny Golovko (2010) 143 Years after Russian America: the Russian language without Russians. Paper read at the 2010 Conference on Russian America, Sitka, August 20, 2010.
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- ↑ Russian language's most isolated dialect found in Alaska. Russia Beyond, 2013 May 13.
- ↑ a b Ninilchik Russian (with dictionary)
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