Munsee Delaware, an Eastern Algonquian language, is spoken by a
small and steadily declining number of individuals. The
Delaware-speaking peoples originally lived in the area of what is
now New York City, adjacent regions of New York State, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Today, a small number of speakers of
the closely related Unami Delaware language are located in
Oklahoma, and, of the three sites where Munsee Delaware was the
predominant Delaware language spoken in Canada, only Moraviantown,
Ontario, has surviving speakers.
Based on linguistic research carried out with Delaware speakers
at Moraviantown, this is the first modern dictionary of Munsee
Delaware. Each of the 7,100 entries in the Delaware-English section
includes information on the word's grammatical category and gives
examples of different inflected forms where appropriate. Also
included are sample sentences used by Delaware speakers,
grammatical and usage notes, cross-references, and indications of
words borrowed from Dutch and English. The English-Delaware section
functions as an index to the Delaware-English section, and is based
upon all major words used in the latter section.
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