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Delaware / Lenape
Native to: United States, in modern times Canada
Region Around the lower Delaware and Hudson rivers in the United States; one or two Munsee speakers in Canada; Unami groups in Oklahoma
Native speakers: 2 speakers of Munsee (2018) Unami Spoken as a learned language by Native Americans of The Delaware Tribe of Indians
Language family: Algonquian
ISO 639-2 del
ISO 639-3 del – inclusive code
Individual codes:
umu – Munsee
unm – Unami
Glottolog: comm1246

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, spoken aboriginally 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, Connecticut, Maryland, and coastal Delaware.

LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_languages
http://www.talk-lenape.org/
http://www.native-languages.org/lenape.htm