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**jeaccatty** · 07-24-2008, 11:09 PM

I am not sure what counts as "historical" in Alaska, but I believe Yupik has been an Orthodox liturgical language since the days of the Russian settlement there.

St Innocent created a written version of the Aleut language and translated the Gospel and the service books, but I don't know that he did for Yupik. As I understand it, most of the Alaskan native village Churches consider Slavonic their liturgical language and possibly add in a small portion of the local native language. The city churches generally serve in English, again with the addition of some of the native languages (for example the parish in Juneau reportedly uses a number of different native languages for some of the more common parts of the service.)

Fr David Moser

07-24-2008, 11:09 PM	#2
jeaccatty Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 587 Senior Member	I am not sure what counts as "historical" in Alaska, but I believe Yupik has been an Orthodox liturgical language since the days of the Russian settlement there. St Innocent created a written version of the Aleut language and translated the Gospel and the service books, but I don't know that he did for Yupik. As I understand it, most of the Alaskan native village Churches consider Slavonic their liturgical language and possibly add in a small portion of the local native language. The city churches generally serve in English, again with the addition of some of the native languages (for example the parish in Juneau reportedly uses a number of different native languages for some of the more common parts of the service.) Fr David Moser
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