Alaskan Russian

Alaskan Russian
Old Russian
The flag of Alaska.
Native toAlaska
RegionKodiak Island (Afognak), Ninilchik
EthnicityAlaskan Creoles
Dialects
  • Kodiak
  • Ninilchik
Cyrillic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologkodi1252  Kodiak Creole Russian
nini1236  Ninilchik
ELPKodiak Russian Creole
IETFru-u-sd-usak

Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. 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.