Unami

A language of United States

ISO 639: unm
Alternate Names: Delaware, Lenape, Lenni-Lenape
Population: No known L1 speakers, but emerging L2 speakers. The last known speaker, Edward Thompson, died in 2002. Ethnic population: 11,000 (2015).
Location:: Oklahoma: Andarko, Bartlesville.
Language Status: 9 (Reawakening). Language of registered tribe: Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians.
Classification: Algic, Algonquian, Eastern Algonquian, Delaware
Dialects: Northern Unami, Southern Unami, Unalachtigo. A member of macrolanguage Delaware [del].
Typology: Polysynthetic language.
Language Use: Shifted to English [eng].
Language Development: Grammar. Texts. Lenape Language Project involved with revitalization.

Location: Oklahoma: Andarko, Bartlesville.