[3] The Aleut component comprises the majority of the vocabulary, all the derivational morphology, part of the simple sentence syntax, nominal inflection and certain other grammatical means.
[4] Originally, the language was spoken by Alaskan Creoles on Copper Island, from where it takes its name.
The Alaskan Creoles are the descendants of promyshlenniki men employed by the Russian-American Company (RAC) and Aleut and Alutiiq women, and formed a small but influential population in Russian Alaska.
They were bilingual in Russian and Aleut, and were defined as a high-status special social group by the RAC.
In particular, it has a relatively free word order in comparison to Aleut, which is strictly SOV.
Notably, Mednyj Aleut contains morphological categories that do not exist in Russian, such as duality.
The Russian-origin influences are added to the verb stem, which is of Aleut origin.
Mednyj Aleut is characterized as considerably more agglutinative than Russian, which is generally considered fusional.