Unami Delaware

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Unami Delaware is an Algonquian language historically spoken by the Unami band of the Lenape (Delaware) people in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Label Occurrences
Unami Delaware canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language
Native American language
endangered language
closelyRelatedTo Munsee
surface form: Munsee Delaware
culturallyAssociatedWith Lenape oral literature
Lenape place names in the mid-Atlantic
Lenape religion and traditions
ethnologueCode unm
glottologCode unam1245
hasAlternativeName Southern Unami
surface form: Delaware Unami

Southern Delaware language
surface form: Southern Delaware

Unami
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialect Northern Unami
Southern Unami
Unalachtigo
hasGrammaticalFeature animate–inanimate gender distinction
direct–inverse system
obviative marking
person marking on verbs
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWordOrder flexible word order
historicalRegion Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

New York
Pennsylvania
mid-Atlantic region of the United States
influencedToponym Allegheny
Hackensack NERFINISHED
Manhattan
Passaic, New Jersey
surface form: Passaic

Susquehanna River
surface form: Susquehanna
languageFamily Algic languages
partOf Lenape language continuum
revitalizationEffort dictionary and grammar projects
language classes in Lenape communities
online learning materials
spokenBy Lenape
surface form: Lenape (Delaware) people

Unami band of the Lenape people
status moribund
severely endangered
subfamilyOf Eastern Algonquian languages
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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

Unami alternateName Unami Delaware
Southern Unami alternateName Unami Delaware