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Mednyj Aleut (also called Copper Island Creole or Copper Island Aleut) is a nearly extinct mixed language spoken on Bering Island. It is characterized by Aleut nouns and Russian verbs each with the full inflectional complexity of the source languages. There are only 5 native speakers left.Mednyj Aleut is characterised by a blending of Russian and Aleut (primarily Attu) elements in most components of the grammar but most profoundly in the verbal morphology.

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