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The Oklahoma Delawares refer to themselves in English as Delaware and in Unami as /ləná·p·e/. [33] The name Lenape, which is sometimes used in English for both Delaware languages together, is the name Unami speakers also use for their own language in English, [34] [35] whereas Munsee speakers call their language in English Lunaapeew. [36]
Pidgin Delaware (also Delaware Jargon or Trader's Jargon) [1][2] was a pidgin language that developed between speakers of Unami Delaware and Dutch traders and settlers on the Delaware River in the 1620s. [1] The fur trade in the Middle Atlantic region led Europeans to interact with local native groups, and hence provided an impetus for the ...
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
The Delaware people, a name used by Europeans for Lenape people Indigenous to ... 5% spoke Spanish. French was the third most spoken language, used by 0.7% of the ...
List of ISO 639 language codes. ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to ...
Names for the speakers of Munsee are used in complex ways in both English and in Munsee. The Unami language is sometimes treated as "Delaware" or "Delaware proper", reflecting the original application of the term Delaware to Unami speakers, [20] [21] but Munsee speakers use Delaware as a self-designation in English. [22]
Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in Oklahoma, in 1915 [6]. The Lenape (English: / l ə ˈ n ɑː p i /, /-p eɪ /, / ˈ l ɛ n ə p i /; [7] [8] Lenape languages: [9]), also called the Lenni Lenape [10] and Delaware people, [11] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
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