Lengua munsee

La lengua munsee (conossuda anca cont el nom ingles  Delaware) l’è vun di su sotlinguagg de la lingua delaware (o Lenape o Lunaapeew). La parten a la famija di lengue algonchine e l’era parlada di nativ american  stanziad in di territori che al dì d’incoeu corrisponden ai stat de New York e Pennsylvania. 
L’è ona lengua adree a estingues che la resta viva infra i poch vegg de la riserva indiana de Moravian (Ontario, Canada)Gordon 2005, varda Bibliografia.

La lengua l’è compagna de la lengua unami (oramai estinta), tant che la pussee part di studios la considera i do lengue ‘me dialet de la lingua delaware, ciapad insema cont el mahican, segond on quai linguista, farissen su el grup di lengue delawaran.Goddard 1979 e 1996, vedi Bibliografia

Note

Bibliografia
 Blalock, Lucy; Pearson, Bruce; Rementer, James, 1994, The Delaware Language., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Delaware Tribe of Indians.
 Costa, David J. 2007 The dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian in Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference pag=81-127  Winnipeg, University of Manitoba
 Delaware Nation Council, 1992, Lunaapeew Dictionary. Basic Words. Part One., Moraviantown, Delaware Nation Council.
 Goddard, Ives, 1974, « The Delaware Language, Past and Present. », Herbert C. Kraft ed., A Delaware Indian Symposium, pagg. 103-110, Anthropological Series No. 4, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
 Goddard, Ives 1978  Delaware  in Handbook of North American Indians vol. 15 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington
 Goddard, Ives 1979 Comparative Algonquian Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, University of Texas Press in The languages of Native America, Austin
 Goddard, Ives 1982 Munsee historical phonology in International Journal of American Linguistics pagg. 16-48
 Gordon, Raymond G. 2005 Ethnologue: Languages of the World SIL International, Dallas
 O'Meara, John 1996 Delaware/English - English/Delaware Dictionary University of Toronto Press
 Pearson, Bruce, 1988, A Grammar of Delaware: Semantics, Morpho-Syntax, Lexicon, Phonology., Dewey, Oklahoma, Touching Leaves Indian Crafts.
 Snow, Dean, 1978, « Late prehistory of the East coast. », Bruce Trigger ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15, Northeast, pag. 58, Washington, The Smithsonian Institution.

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