Niiĝuĝim Tunugan Ilakuchangis
Introduction to Atkan Aleut
Grammar and Lexicon

ALEUT- ENGLISH
DICTIONARY

100 sisax̂

200 alax sisax̂

900 sichiing sisax̂

1,000 tiisichax̂ = hatidim sisax̂ (10 x 100)

10,000 sisadiin sisax̂ (100 x 100)

1,000,000 milivuunax̂

9,009,999 sichiing miliyuunax̂, sichiing tiisichax̂, sichiing sisax̂ sichiingidim hatix̂ sichiing

ataqan tayaĝux̂ one man

ataqan al haqakux̂ he comes alone (being one).

ataqan aluĝix̂ a single letter

ataqakus aluĝis one book (old expression)

alax tayaĝus, old: alax tayaĝux two men

qankus tugidas three months

Sichiing tugidax̂ anĝaĝikux̂.
He is nine months old (has lived 9 months).

hatix̂ slux̂ ten years (or summers)

hatix̂ slux̂takux̂ is ten years old

qankus sisax̂ chngatux̂ three hundred sea otter

ataqan sigax̂tax̂ 11 o'clock

alax signax̂tax̂ 12 o'clock

atagal getting or scoring one

alaxs getting or scoring two

Isuĝis qankul ax̂takus.
They have got three seals.

ilangiin itx̂aygis sichiingiiĝutal
getting again nine of the reindeer there

ataqadim once

slumaan ataqadim once a year

ataqadim tunux̂tal talking continuously

Agitaadaam ilagaan algidim angunakux̂.
It is twice as big as the other one.

hatidim hatix̂ = sisax̂

itaangix̂ the first

itaangix̂ ugii her first husband

agalugan itaangii his first tooth

aalax hiisix̂ the second

aalax hiisal doing for the second time

qaankus hiisix̂ the third

siiching hiisix̂ the fourth

chaang hiisix̂ the fifth

inaaĝuliitix̂, inaaĝuliisix̂ the last

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