Alutiiq Agrafena was probably a member of the southern branch of Eskimo which has gone by a number of names, as found in the following listing for her language at the SIL Ethnologue Web site on the Internet, and illustrated further by Dr. Michael Krauss' discussion in the quote at the bottom of this page. This is the same language spoken by Agrafena's Children of Nanwalek, Alaska. Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Alaskan coast from Cook Inlet to Prince William Sound. Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Yupik, Alaskan.
Most speakers are middle-aged or older.
English is used as second language. Bible portions 1848. There are several important isoglosses at the border, and certainly there is little mutual intelligibility between the Chugach dialects and the central dialects of Central Yupik. Naming this language presents a problem. Along with the name they also share with the Aleutian Aleuts the Russian religion and Russian surnames as part of their identity.