Delaware languages

Delaware
Lënapei èlixsuwakàn
Geographic
distribution		United States, in modern times Canada
Around the lower Delaware and Hudson rivers in the United States; one or two Munsee speakers in Canada; Unami groups in Oklahoma
Native speakers
2 speakers of Munsee (2018)
Unami spoken as a second language by Native Americans of the Delaware Tribe of Indians
Linguistic classificationAlgic
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5del
ISO 639-3del
Glottologcomm1246
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Map showing the aboriginal boundaries of Delaware territories, with Munsee territory and Unami dialectal divisions indicated.[citation needed]

The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Delaware: Lënapei èlixsuwakàn),[3] are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family. Munsee and Unami were spoken aboriginally by the Lenape people in the vicinity of the modern New York City area in the United States, including western Long Island, Manhattan Island, Staten Island, as well as adjacent areas on the mainland: southeastern New York State, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Delaware.[4]

  1. ^ Pentland, David, 1992, p. 15; Goddard, Ives, 1996, p. 5
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Delawaran". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  3. ^ "The Lenape Talking Dictionary | Detailed Entry View - the Delaware language". www.talk-lenape.org. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  4. ^ Goddard, Ives, 1978a, p. 213; Goddard, Ives, 1997, p. 43