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Name: Unami Type: Language Alternate Names: Delaware; Lenni-Lenape; Lenape; Tla Wilano; Unami Delaware Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: No known speakers. US Census (2000) lists 308 who use it at home. Ethnic population: 13,500 (1997 J. Rementer) (Ethnologue) Code: unm Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Delaware; Delawaran (mdmb) Child Dialects: Southern Unami (unm-sou) Northern Unami (unm-nor) Unalachtigo (unm-una) Brief Description: "Unami (Oklahoma Delaware, Lenape) was an Eastern Algonquian language originally spoken in several dialects in southern and central New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware. With the westward migration of the Delawares, Southern Unami came to be spoken in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, and elsewhere, ending up after the Civil War in Oklahoma, where it was the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe, near Bartlesville and Dewey, Oklahoma, and the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, near Anadarko. The last speaker died in 2002. The Northern Unami dialect was extensively documented by German-speaking Moravian missionaries in the late eighteenth century and survived into the twentieth century among the Canadian Munsees. The Unalachtigo dialect, originally from the Trenton area, appears also to be reflected in the Moravians' materials." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 24

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed