Eastern Algonquian Languages - Delaware Languages, Powhatan, Unami Language, Munsee Language, Munsee Grammar, Penobscot People, Quiripi Language (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Delaware languages, Powhatan, Unami language, Munsee language, Munsee grammar, Penobscot people, Quiripi language, Mi'kmaq language, Passamaquoddy people, Powhatan language, Western Abnaki language, Mahican language, Podunk people, Massachusett language, A Key Into the Language of America, Nashaway people, Malecite-Passamaquoddy language, Abenaki language, Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett language, Nanticoke language, Piscataway language, Etchemin language, Carolina Algonquian language, Eastern Abnaki language. Excerpt: The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages, are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family. Munsee and Unami were spoken aboriginally 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: southeastern New York State, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and coastal Delaware. Munsee and Unami are assigned to the Algonquian language family, and are analysed as members of Eastern Algonquian, a subgroup of Algonquian. The languages of the Algonquian family constitute a group of historically related languages descended from a common source language, Proto-Algonquian. The Algonquian languages are spoken across Canada from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast; on the American Plains; south of the Great Lakes; and on the Atlantic coast. Many of the Algonquian languages are now extinct. The Eastern Algonquian languages were spoken on the Atlantic coast from the Canadian Maritime provinces to North Carolina. Many of the languages are now extinct, and some are known only from very fragmentary records. Eastern Algonquian is considered a genetic subgroup within the Algonquian family, ...