Southern Unami

E294680

Algonquian language variety Unami dialect dialect

Southern Unami is a dialect of the Unami branch of the Algonquian languages traditionally spoken by Lenape people in the mid-Atlantic region of North America.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Southern Unami canonical	6
Delaware Unami	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Algonquian language variety ⓘ Unami dialect ⓘ dialect ⓘ
alternateName	Southern Delaware language ⓘ surface form: Southern Delaware Unami Delaware ⓘ
associatedPeople	Lenape ⓘ surface form: Lenape of the Delaware River region
closelyRelatedTo	Munsee language ⓘ surface form: Munsee Northern Unami ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
documentedBy	linguistic fieldwork in the 19th and 20th centuries ⓘ
endangermentStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Lenape ⓘ surface form: Delaware Indians Lenape ⓘ surface form: Lenape people
glottocode	unam1245 ⓘ
hasCommunityProgram	Lenape language classes in Oklahoma ⓘ Lenape language classes in Ontario ⓘ
hasDialect	Munsee-influenced Southern Unami ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ German ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	complex verb inflection ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ rich consonant inventory including affricates ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	relatively free word order ⓘ
historicalStatus	traditionally spoken ⓘ
ISO639-3	unm ⓘ
languageBranch	Eastern Algonquian languages ⓘ surface form: Eastern Algonquian
languageFamily	Algonquian languages ⓘ surface form: Algonquian
partOf	Algonquian languages ⓘ Eastern Algonquian languages ⓘ Munsee language ⓘ surface form: Lenape language
region	Delaware River watershed ⓘ surface form: Delaware River Valley New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: New Jersey Pennsylvania ⓘ mid-Atlantic region of North America ⓘ
revitalizationStatus	subject of language revitalization efforts ⓘ
spokenBy	Lenape communities in Oklahoma ⓘ Lenape communities in Ontario ⓘ
subdivisionOf	Unami ⓘ
traditionalUsePeriod	pre-colonial era to 20th century ⓘ
typologicalFeature	head-marking language ⓘ verb-centered morphology ⓘ
usedIn	Lenape oral tradition ⓘ Lenape storytelling ⓘ traditional Lenape ceremonies ⓘ
writingSystem	Americanist phonetic notation ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Unami language → hasDialects → Southern Unami ⓘ

Unami language → alternativeName → Southern Unami ⓘ

this entity surface form: Delaware Unami

Unami → hasDialect → Southern Unami ⓘ

Northern Unami → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Unami ⓘ

Southern Delaware language → alsoKnownAs → Southern Unami ⓘ

Unami Delaware → hasDialect → Southern Unami ⓘ

Unami Delaware → hasAlternativeName → Southern Unami ⓘ

this entity surface form: Delaware Unami

unm → hasDialect → Southern Unami ⓘ

subject surface form: Unami language