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The Instrumental and the Comitative in the Aleut Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Waldemar Jochelson
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There are in Aleut three endings to indicate the number of nouns: x' for the singular, x for the dual, and n (in the Atka dialect, s) for the plural.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1927, pp. 9 - 11
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Copyright © 1927 Linguistic Society of America

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1 The Aleut is a dialect of the Eskimo. The author studied the Aleut language (in three dialects) while spending about two years (1909–10) in the Aleutian Islands on behalf of the Russian Geographic Society. Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands were published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925. The Aleut folklore (texts and translation), grammar, and vocabulary, are in preparation for the Publications of Columbia University, New York, under the editorship of Prof. Franz Boas. The material on the somatology, ethnology, and sociology of the Aleut is also in preparation. In this article g is used instead of g with a dot beneath to represent an uvular [g].