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{{Short description|Native American languages centered around the Delaware River}} {{Infobox language family | name = Delaware | region = [[United States]], in modern times [[Canada]]<br>Around the lower [[Delaware River|Delaware]] and [[Hudson River|Hudson]] rivers in the [[United States]]; one or two [[Munsee language|Munsee]] speakers in [[Canada]]; [[Unami language|Unami]] groups in [[Oklahoma]] | speakers = 1 | date = 2022, [[Munsee language|Munsee]] | ref = | speakers2 = [[Unami language|Unami]] spoken as a second language by Native Americans of the [[Delaware Tribe of Indians]] | familycolor = Algic | fam1 = [[Algic languages|Algic]] | fam2 = [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] | fam3 = [[Eastern Algonquian languages|Eastern Algonquian]] | fam4 = Delawaran<ref name="Delawaran">Pentland, David, 1992, p. 15; Goddard, Ives, 1996, p. 5</ref><ref name="GlottologDelawaran">{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dela1253 |title=Delawaran |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030012300/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dela1253 |archive-date=2022-10-30 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}</ref> | iso2 = del | iso3 = del | lc1 = umu | ld1 = [[Munsee language|Munsee]] | lc2 = unm | ld2 = [[Unami language|Unami]] | glotto = comm1246 | glottorefname = Common Delaware | notice = IPA | altname = {{lang|unm|Lënapei èlixsuwakàn}} | child1 = [[Munsee language|Munsee]] | child2 = [[Unami language|Unami]] | map = File:Lenape Languages.png | mapcaption = Map showing the aboriginal boundaries of Delaware territories, with Munsee territory and Unami dialectal divisions indicated.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} }} The '''Delaware languages''', also known as the '''Lenape languages''' ({{langx|del-Latn|link=no|Lënapei èlixsuwakàn}}),<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Lenape Talking Dictionary {{!}} Detailed Entry View - the Delaware language |url=https://www.talk-lenape.org/detail?id=3888 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.talk-lenape.org}}</ref> are [[Munsee language|Munsee]] and [[Unami language|Unami]], two closely related languages of the [[Eastern Algonquian languages|Eastern Algonquian]] subgroup of the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian language family]]. Munsee and Unami were spoken [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|aboriginal]]ly 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: [[Hudson Valley|southeastern New York State]], eastern [[Pennsylvania]], [[New Jersey]], Connecticut, Maryland, and [[Delaware]].<ref>Goddard, Ives, 1978a, p. 213; Goddard, Ives, 1997, p. 43</ref>
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