Unalaskan

See also: unAlaskan

English

Etymology

From Unalaska +‎ -n.

Adjective

Unalaskan (comparative more Unalaskan, superlative most Unalaskan)

1. Pertaining to or typical of Unalaska
   • 1894, The United Service, page 224:

     The weary sojourner sustains life mostly on "canned goods," and a combination of Unalaskan winter with this variety of nutriment is sufficient to make a man impatient with liquor, or employ one of the other means by which consciousness of misfortune is blunted.

   • 1985, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Bruce Murray Harris, John S. Petterson, A systems approach to social impact assessment: two Alaskan case studies:

     Like the processing industry, the Unalaskan fishing fleet is dominated by outsiders.

   • 2010, Raymond L. Hudson, Fredericka Martin, Before the Storm: A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942, →ISBN, page 293:

     From the sea path we ran down into the little dell where Whitney Pond or Botanist Pool lay serenely, nurturing the delicate yellow anemone, two species of Arenaria, the mountain goldthread, and the Unalaskan Arnica, flowers found nowhere else on the island.

Noun

Unalaskan (plural Unalaskans)

1. A native of Unalaska.
   • 1988, U.S. Fish, Wildlife Service. Region 7, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge:

     Virtually all of the resources that Unalaskans desire can be found within the Unalaska Bay area, and travel outside the Bay is much more difficult and dangerous than travel within it.

   • 1991, Impact Assessment, Inc, Regulatory Impact/initial Flexibility Analysis of Proposed Inshore/Offshore Amendment Proposal, page 68:

     The problem surfaced in 1988 when Unalaska was left off a federal roll of recognized tribal entities, much to the surprise of Unalaskans.

   • 2014, John Gascoigne, Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment, →ISBN:

     When an Unalaskan came on board the Spanish vessel, he 'made the sign of the cross and said he was a Christian'.

Proper noun

Unalaskan

1. The eastern dialect of Inuktitut.
   • 1947, Charles Frederick Voegelin, International Journal of American Linguistics - Volume 13, page 198:

     There are three Aleut languages which, from west to east, are: Attuan, Atkan and Unalaskan. On the whole, the Atkan leans on the Unalaskan and goes with it. Unalaskan with comparatively little variation includes the Aleut subdialects of the Alaska Peninsula of the mainland.

   • 1990, Inuit Studies: - Volumes 14-16, page 197:

     Proficient in Church Slavonic (necessary for the psalomshchik), fluent and literate in both Unalaskan Aleut and in Russian, conversant also in English, and an Aleut-Russian himself, he wrote this lengthy letter, and others published in the same collection, in the Unalaskan Aleut language.

   • 1997, Viacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation to Native American Traditions -- An Attempt at a Multicultural Society, 1794-1912, →ISBN, page 15:

     In the introduction to his book on Tlingit and Eskimo, Veniaminov discusses the relations between six languages of the part of North America that belonged to Russia: Unalaskan (Aleut), Kodiak (Eskimo; he gave a general description of its six main dialects spread in Alaska), Kenai (by this term he meant Tanaina and some other North Athabaskan languages: Kolchan, Ahtna, Koyukon, Ingalik-Kutchin), Iakutat (he distinguished already between Iakutat and closely related Ugalien=Eyak), Kaigan (Haida in modern terminology).

   • 2013, George L. Campbell, Gareth King, Compendium of the World's Languages, →ISBN:

     When Menovščikov described the Unalaskan form (in JaNSSSR, vol. V, 1968) only about 50 elderly people spoke the language, which may now be presumed to be extinct.