1. Surrounded by snow and ice, an Aleut hunter slices slabs of raw whale blubber for dinner.

2. Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language.

3. A Native American people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and coastal areas of southwest Alaska. The Aleut are related culturally and linguistically to the Eskimo.

4. By the time I filled the basket, the 1)Aleut ship had sailed around the wide 2)kelp bed that encloses our island and between the two rocks that guard Coral Cove.

5. Most languages derive from one parent language. Mednyj Aleut has two parents.

6. The language they created and passed on resembles Aleut, but with Russian verb endings and Russian words mixed into the vocabulary.

7. Native American people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and coastal areas of southwest Alaska. The Aleut are related culturally and linguistically to the Eskimo.

8. Unlike most languages it has two parents, a combination of largely Aleut vocabulary and Russian verb endings.

9. The language's first speakers were children with one Russian parent and one Aleut parent.