Alaskan Russian , known locally as Old Russian , is a dialect of Russian , influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages , spoken by Alaskan Creoles . 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.
1-627: 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. Ninilchik Russian is better studied and more vibrant; it developed from the Russian colonial settlement of Ninilchik in 1847. Ninilchik Russian vocabulary is clearly Russian with a few borrowings from English and Alaskan native languages . Here are some examples of Alaskan Russian from
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