Delaware languages

Delaware
Delaware
Lënapei èlixsuwakàn
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	Algic Algonquian Eastern Algonquian Delawaran Delaware; ; ; ;
Language codes
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 (Delaware: Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family. Munsee and Unami were 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 Delaware.

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