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Preferred term

unmUnami  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Unami is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by Lenape people in what is now the lower Hudson Valley area and New York Harbor area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma. It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other being Munsee. Speakers have shifted to English.

Entry terms

  • Unami language

ISO 639-3 code

  • unm

Notation

  • unm

In other languages

  • Unami

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/unm

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