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    Munsee (also known as Munsee Delaware, Delaware, Ontario Delaware, Delaware: Huluníixsuwaakan, Monsii èlixsuwakàn) is an endangered language of the Eastern...
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    The Munsee (Delaware: Monsiyok) are a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape. Historically, they lived along the upper portion of the Delaware...
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    Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Delaware: Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern...
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    Lenape (redirect from Munsee Indians)
    that Munsee and Unami "came out of one parent language"/ Only a few Delaware First Nation elders in Moraviantown, Ontario, fluently speak Munsee. William...
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  • European ancestry. The Lenape language in this area was Munsee, an Algonquian dialect. The Tuscarora spoke an Iroquoian language. After relations with European...
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  • Munsee-Delaware Nation (Munsee: Nalahii Lunaapewaak, meaning: Lenapes from the Upstream, in contrast with The Lenape at Moraviantown, referred to as "Downstrean...
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  • Munsee language, spoken only on the Moraviantown Reserve in Ontario, Canada by five living people Christian Munsee, also known as the Moravian Munsee...
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    Wappinger (section Language)
    The Wappinger (/ˈwɒpɪndʒər/ WOP-in-jər) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western...
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    86167°W / 44.89861; -88.86167 The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American...
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    Red Hook, Brooklyn (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, New York, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting...
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    Costa, D. J. (2007). pp. 84–88 Munsee Language Resources. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.native-languages.org/munsee.htm Conthan, L. (2006). Arapaho-English...
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    Wyoming (redirect from Languages of Wyoming)
    American Revolutionary War. The name ultimately derives from the Lenape Munsee word xwé:wamənk ("at the big river flat"). Wyoming's climate is generally...
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    Long Island (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    the western end of Long Island and spoke the Munsee dialect of Lenape, part of the Algonquian language family. The Lenape practiced record keeping and...
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    Mohicans (category Articles containing Mahican-language text)
    United States government organized the Stockbridge-Munsee Community with registered members of the Munsee people and a 22,000-acre (89 km2) reservation, which...
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  • languages Munsee and Unami have been acknowledged in studies of Mohican linguistic history. In one classification Mohican and the Delaware languages are...
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  • Reserve No. 1, part of the above Munsee grammar Munsee language Christian Munsee Stockbridge-Munsee Community USS Munsee (ATF-107), an Abnaki-class fleet...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    Dakelh Nadleh Whut'en: telhjoos Nak'azdli: techus Dane-zaa: taadle Delaware Munsee: wiiníingwus Unami: wininkwës Gitxsan: lis'in Halkomelem Hul'q'umi'num:...
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    The Christian Munsee are a group of Lenape (also known as Delaware), an Indigenous people in the United States, that primarily speak Munsee and have converted...
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    Tuxedo Park, New York (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    metropolitan area. Its name is derived from an indigenous Lenape word of the Munsee language, tucsedo or p'tuxseepu, which is said to mean 'crooked water' or 'crooked...
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    Coney Island (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages. Amsterdam University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-9-08964-124-3. "The Atlantic...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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  • with its sound such as Chief Oritam; the Munsee language did not have the letter R or sound in the language, according to the anthropologist Evan Pritchard...
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    Wyoming Valley (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    southeast of the Wyoming Valley. The name Wyoming derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwéːwamənk, meaning "at the big river flat." According to The Jesuit...
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    The Bronx (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    African languages, 0.91% (11,455) French, 0.90% (11,355) Italian, 0.87% (10,946) various Indic languages, 0.70% (8,836) other Indo-European languages, and...
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    Roosevelt Island (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    partnership with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and each school taught a foreign language as well. The first school on Roosevelt Island opened in 1975 with a single...
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    The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River...
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    three place-names identified in Schuyler's Patent is given in the Munsee language. Prior to 1812, Red Hook was part of the town of Rhinebeck. Because...
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    century, Pound Ridge was inhabited by Native Americans who spoke the Munsee language and were members of the Wappinger Confederacy. The geographical boundaries...
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    United States. They were part of the Forks Indians. The name was a Munsee language term for the Unami-speakers of west-central New Jersey. Moravian missionaries...
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    Shorakapkok Preserve, shorakapkok meaning 'the sitting place' in the Munsee language used by the Wecquaesgeek tribe who inhabited the area for nearly 700...
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