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Algonquian Language Family (Algic)

American Indian languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones....There are around 25 million native speakers of the more than 800 surviving Amerind languages. The vast majority of these speakers live in Central and South America, where language use is vigorous. In Canada and the United States, only about half a million native speakers of an Amerind tongue remain.
The Algonquian Language Family is known as 'Algic" to linguists. "Algonquian" or "Algonkian'" is the general term most often used by the Native Americans who speak them. Spoken in the northern US and Canada, the Algonquian language family includes.  (Native Languages of the Americas: Amerind Language Foundation) Note that we have provided links to the various Algonquian languages. For more information of the work of the Native Language Organization, write to: Laura Redish, Director, Native Languages of the Americas, PO Box 130562, St. Paul MN 55113-0005 :

(Native Languages of the Americas: Amerind Language Foundation  )

LENAPE - DELAWARE DICTIONARY

In 1889, Daniel G. Brinton and Frederick D. Stone of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania edited the contents of an anonymous MS. in the archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, PA. This, with the additions they incorporated, became A Lenape - English Dictionary. Their consultant was Rev. Albert Seqaqkind Anthony, himself a Lenape, who was the assistant Missionary to the Delawares and "Six Nations" in Canada. For a while, we  included all of this dictionary, but because we have a space (size) limitation of 50 megabytes on this web sites, we have eliminated this section. The American Amerind Foundation is the authority on this subject. The "Native Languages of America" site  is a wonderful one and has so much to offer for all of us. We are grateful for the research of those responsible for the site. Editor

Native Languages of the Americas:
Lenape (Unami, Delaware, Lenni Lenape)

Language: Lenape, also known as Unami or Delaware, is an Algonquian language once spoken in New Jersey and Delaware. Today the language is spoken natively by only one elder, and will soon be lost; as with many dying Indian languages, though, there has been a resurgence in interest among some of the younger generation, and efforts to revive the language are underway. Two closely related languages are considered dialects of Lenape by some linguists, distinct Algonquian languages by others: Nanticoke or Southern Delaware, which was last spoken in the mid-1800's, and Munsee Delaware, which is still spoken by a few elders in Ontario.

People: The Lenni Lenape are often said to be extinct. This is not so; there are about 11,000 Lenape in Oklahoma, where they were sent by the US government (which only recently stopped incorrectly classifying them as Cherokees), and another 5000 in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, though they do not have federal recognition and their language has nearly disappeared. The Munsee Delaware, in Ontario and Wisconsin, consider themselves a distinct tribe.

Lenape Language Resources:

Language Lessons and Linguistic Descriptions

The links below have not been checked. If you do so, let me know if any of them are not good. Editor

Brief overview of Lenape, with pronunciation guide, small glossary of animal words, and place names http://www.web-savvy.com/river/Schuylkill/new_lenape.html
 

 Lenape woman raising money for the preservation and revival of the Lenape language

Lenape Proper Names  Lenape place names
http://www.geocities.com/geonative/abenaki.html#del
 
Lenape Language Resources Available Offline

List of Lenape language-learning materials available, with order information
http://216.250.229.70/learning/lenape.htm

Lenape language-learning audio courses for sale
http://www.native-americans.org/languages/language-lenape-delaware.htm

As a complement to the information we have provided about the Lenape language, we would like to present our collection of indexed links about the Lenape people and various aspects of their society. The emphasis of these pages is on American Indians as a living people with a present and a future as well as a past. Lenape history is interesting and important, but the Lenape are still here today, too, and we have tried to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday. Suggestions for new links are always welcome.

Lenape Tribal and Community Links

Official homepage of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville Band)
http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/

Official homepage of the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma (Anadarko Band)
http://www.westerndelaware.nsn.us/

Homepages of tribal groups of Lenape and Nanticoke descendents in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Some culture and history of the Lenni Lenape, with a map of Schuylkill Watershed labeled with Lenape place names
http://www.web-savvy.com/river/Schuylkill/lenape.html
 

Lenape Lifestyle and Tradition

Cultural and historical information about the Lenape
http://www.delawareindians.com/

Flag of the Delaware Tribe (Lenni Lenape)
http://hometown.aol.com/Donh523/navapage/lenni.htm

Sketches of traditional Algonquin and Delaware costume
http://www.nativetech.org/clothing/regions/region1.html

Detailed discussion of Fox, Huron, and Delaware basic dress, regalia, and hairstyles
http://www.turtletrack.org/ManyVoices/V_2/Issue_05/Regalia_Outerwear_0330.htm

Sites about Carolyn Attneave, Cherokee-Delaware psychologist and philosopher
http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A21
http://www.world.std.com/~dtrimble/net793.html#Memoriam

Delaware Gender Roles
     Delaware gender, sex, and childbearing traditions
Seeking Native American Spirituality: Read This First!
     Advice for people researching traditional Lenape religion and other American Indian spirituality

Lenape Literature and Art

  Various Lenape authors, their lives and work
  http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t150
  http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=233
  http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/faculty/forbes/jfhome.html

  Jim Thunder Warrior Beer, Lenape musician
  http://members.tripod.com/~dikani/frame26889.html

Lenape History Links
   Compact tribal history of the Delaware
   http://www.tolatsga.org/dela.html

  Sites about the Walam Olum (Red Record or Score), some asserting it is authentic,   others that it is a hoax
http://128.192.54.192/bobk/walamc.html
http://www.meyna.com/lenape.html

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