Language
The Eskimo population of settlement Сиреники (Sireniki), and a part of the population of the mixed villages nearby used to speak a special variant of Eskimo languages. It has several peculiarities not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut. For example, dual number is not known in Sireniki Eskimo, while most Eskimo–Aleut languages have dual, including even its neighboring Siberian Yupik relatives. The peculiarities amounted to mutual unintelligibility even with its nearest language relatives.
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