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Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. OCLC 53019644. Google URL (pages to 150); Internet Archive URL (requires free registration and Borrow action) Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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.
Pages in category "Delaware placenames of Native American origin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
The Unami dialect (called a language by non-native speaker students of Lenape) is sometimes called Delaware or Delaware proper, reflecting the original application of the term Delaware to Unami speakers. [27] Both Munsee and Unami speakers use Delaware if enrolled and Lenape if not enrolled as a self-designation in English. [28]
Unami is an Eastern Algonquian language.The hypothetical common ancestor language from which the Eastern Algonquian languages descend is Proto-Eastern Algonquian (PEA). An intermediate group, Delawarean, that is a descendant of Proto-Eastern Algonquian consists of Mahican and Common Delaware, the latter being a further subgroup comprising Munsee Delaware and Unami Delaware
Nanticoke River Delaware Indians. The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian-speaking people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay area, including Delaware. Today they continue to live in the Northeastern United States, especially Delaware, and in Oklahoma.
"Native American Audio Collections: Delaware". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on March 2, 2013; Native Languages of the Americas: Munsee Delaware (Minsi, Muncey, Minisink) Collection of Hymns, in Muncey and English, for the Use of the Native Indians, 1874; OLAC resources in and about the Munsee language