Munsee language
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| Munsee | ||
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| Spoken in: | Canada; United States | |
| Region: | now in Ontario; formerly in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania | |
| Total speakers: | 7-8 (1991) | |
| Language family: | Algic Algonquian Eastern Algonquian Delaware Munsee |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | umu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Munsee (also known as Delaware, Ontario Delaware) is an endangered Algonquian language formerly spoken in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States, but now spoken on the Moraviantown Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Speakers have shifted to English. The language is now known by only a few older adults. [1]
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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