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Lenape language
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Delaware languages
The
Delaware languages
, also known as the
Lenape languages
, are
Munsee
and
Unami
, two closely related languages of the
Eastern Algonquian
subgroup of the
Algonquian language family
. Munsee and Unami were spoken
aboriginal
ly 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
, and coastal
Delaware
.
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Unami language
Unami
is an
Algonquian language
spoken by
Lenape
people in what was then the lower
Hudson Valley
area and
New York Harbor
area,
New Jersey
,
Pennsylvania
and Delaware, but later in Ontario and
Oklahoma
. It is one of the two
Delaware languages
, the other being
Munsee
. The last fluent speaker, Edward Thompson, of the
Delaware Tribe of Indians
, died on 31 August 2002. His sister
Nora Thompson Dean
(1907–1984) provided valuable information about the language to linguists and other scholars.
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