Alutiiq Word of the Week, November 3, 2013
Niuwaluni; Yuwaluni – Talk (continuously) Alutiit’stun niuwaneq pingaktaaqa. – I like to talk the Alutiiqlanguage. (click on sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) The Alutiiq language, the indigenous language of the Kodiak Archipelago, is known as Sugt’stun, which literally means “to speak like a person.” Although there are just a few handfuls of fluent Sugt’stun […]