Munsee

Algonquian language

Languagenatural language modern languageQ56547

Also known as umu · Munsee language

Subclass of: Delaware
Indigenous to: Ontario

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Munsee is an endangered language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a branch of the Algic language family. Munsee is one of two Delaware languages. It is very closely related to the Unami Delaware, but the two are sufficiently different that they are considered separate languages. Munsee was spoken aboriginally by Lenape 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, the northern third of New Jersey, and northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Works in this language

1 linked to Munsee in Wikidata

DDelaware‐English / English‐Delaware Dictionary2014 · 2014

All data

28 statements · 36% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: Munsee
Ethnologue language status: 8b Nearly Extinct
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1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/umuRetrieved 2019-05-10
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Wikimedia language code: umu
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1.Stated in Wikidata Toolkitgithub.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/blob/3e62f93b137c25961c5a12172c7f213a720ecb67/wdtk-datamodel/src/main/java/org/wikidata/wdtk/datamodel/interfaces/WikimediaLanguageCodes.javaRetrieved 2019-06-06
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Country: Canada
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1.“ScriptSource - Canada”scriptsource.org/country/CARetrieved 2023-08-21
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United States
Has grammatical gender: neuter
common
Native label: hulŭniixsuwáakan
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Sources
1.Stated in Delaware‐English / English‐Delaware Dictionary
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UNESCO language status: 5 critically endangered

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12 identifiers linking Munsee across the web's reference databases

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