Munsee language

E64303

Eastern Algonquian language Indigenous language of North America critically endangered language

The Munsee language is an Eastern Algonquian Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Munsee Lenape people of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, now critically endangered with only a few fluent speakers.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Lenape language	6
Munsee	6
Lenape languages	1
Munsee Delaware	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Algonquian language ⓘ Indigenous language of North America ⓘ critically endangered language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Southern Delaware language ⓘ surface form: Delaware languages Unami language ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalRole	language of Munsee Lenape identity ⓘ
documentedBy	linguist Ives Goddard ⓘ various community scholars ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Lenape ⓘ surface form: Munsee Lenape people
glottocode	muns1251 ⓘ
grammaticalFeature	animate–inanimate gender system ⓘ complex verb inflection ⓘ direct–inverse verb morphology ⓘ obviative marking ⓘ person hierarchy in verb agreement ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Munsee language ⓘ surface form: Munsee Delaware Lenape ⓘ surface form: Munsee Lenape Northern Unami ⓘ surface form: Northern Unami (historical classification, now usually distinguished)
historicalRegion	Delaware Valley ⓘ surface form: Delaware River Valley eastern Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Eastern Pennsylvania Hudson Valley ⓘ surface form: Lower Hudson River Valley North Jersey ⓘ surface form: Northern New Jersey
ISO639-3	umu ⓘ
languageFamily	Algic languages ⓘ surface form: Algic language family
lexicalBorrowingFrom	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ
linguisticTypology	head-marking language ⓘ polysynthetic language ⓘ
morphologyType	fusional morphology ⓘ
numberOfFluentSpeakers	very few ⓘ
partOf	Munsee language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lenape languages
phonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
region	Northeastern United States ⓘ Ontario ⓘ surface form: Ontario, Canada
revitalizationEffort	audio recordings ⓘ community language classes ⓘ dictionary compilation ⓘ documentation projects ⓘ
status	critically endangered ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Algic languages ⓘ Algonquian languages ⓘ
usedBy	Delaware Nation at Moraviantown ⓘ Munsee-Delaware Nation ⓘ
wordOrder	flexible word order ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (17)

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

Mahican language → closelyRelatedTo → Munsee language ⓘ

Unami → closelyRelatedTo → Munsee language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Munsee

Unami language → closelyRelatedTo → Munsee language ⓘ

Delaware people → ethnonymLanguage → Munsee language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Munsee

Munsee language → hasAlternativeName → Munsee language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Munsee Delaware

Munsee-Delaware Nation → hasTraditionalLanguage → Munsee language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Munsee

Algic languages → includes → Munsee language ⓘ