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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]
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.
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
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 ...
Numeral prefix. Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: In many European languages there are two principal systems, taken from Latin and Greek, each with several subsystems; in addition, Sanskrit ...
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Nanticoke is sometimes considered a dialect of the Delaware language, but its vocabulary was quite distinct. This is shown in a few brief glossaries, which are all that survive of the language. One is a 146-word list compiled by Moravian missionary John Heckewelder in 1785, from his interview with a Nanticoke chief then living in Canada. [7]
Munsee is an Eastern Algonquian language, which is the sole recognized genetic subgroup descending from Proto-Algonquian, the common ancestor language of the Algonquian language family. Munsee is very closely related to Unami Delaware. Munsee and Unami constitute the Delaware languages, comprising a subgroup within Eastern Algonquian.