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    Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in the...
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  • Unami may refer to: Unami people, one of the three main divisions of the Lenape Nation Unami language, a Delaware language within the Algonquian language...
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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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    one of two Delaware languages (also known as Lenape languages, after the tribe's autonym). It is very closely related to the Unami Delaware, but the two...
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    Atsayongky, from Unami: "muddy creek") was a Native American tribe. It is a part of the indigenous people of Lenape that spoke the Unami language. the tribe...
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    Lenape (redirect from Unami people)
    Nation and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. The Unami and Munsee languages belong to the Eastern Algonquian language group and are largely mutually intelligible...
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  • several extant languages, such as Malecite-Passamaquoddy, Massachusett and Munsee as well as extinct languages like Abenaki and Unami. Beyond having a...
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    Jersey's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. A diverse collection of languages has since evolved amongst the state's population...
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    Wigwam (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Miami-Illinois language wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language wicuw in the Mohegan language ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuck language wikëwam in Unami wickiup: wiikiyaapi...
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    Raccoon (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    American raccoon, and northern raccoon. In various North American native languages, the reference to the animal's manual dexterity, or use of its hands is...
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    both forms are derived from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa. Abenakian or Unami wigwam (*weekuwôm) /wiːkəwãm/ instead of Massachusett wetu (weetyuw) /wiːtʲəw/...
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    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 called...
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    Lenapehoking (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Lenapehoking (Unami: Lënapehòkink) is widely translated as 'homelands of the Lenape', which in the 16th and 17th centuries, ranged along the Eastern seaboard...
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    Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    says the name Punxsutawney derives from a Native name in the Lenape language, Unami: Punkwsutènay, which translates to "town of the sandflies" or "town...
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    Susquehanna River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    villages. A third account translates "Susquehanna" from the Susquehannock language, of the Iroquoian family, as "the stream that falls toward the south" or...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    telhjoos Nak'azdli: techus Dane-zaa: taadle Delaware Munsee: wiiníingwus Unami: wininkwës Gitxsan: lis'in Halkomelem Hul'q'umi'num: chuchi'q'un' Halqeméylem:...
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    Conshohocken, Pennsylvania (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    side of the Schuylkill River. The name "Conshohocken" comes from the Unami language and may be translated as "pleasant valley". The name derives from either...
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    Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Ohiopyle is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 38 at the 2020 census. While Ohiopyle has a tiny year-round population...
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    The Okehocking Tribe (also known as Ockanickon) was a small band of Unami language-speaking Delaware Indians, who occupied an area along the Ridley and...
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    Allegheny River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    control. The name of the river is derived from one of a number of Delaware/Unami phrases that are homophones of the English name, with varying translations...
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    Schuylkill River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    heavily endowed coal valleys in the southern coal region. The bulk of the Unami Lenape tribal group actually lived along the Schuylkill River and the southerly...
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    Nowata, Oklahoma (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    through named it "nuwita," meaning "friendly" or "welcome." In the Cherokee language, the town is called ᎠᎹᏗᎧᏂᎬᎬ (A-ma-di-ka-ni-gunh-gunh, roughly), which means...
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    Powhatan (category Eastern Algonquian languages)
    territories were in eastern Virginia. Their Powhatan language is an Eastern Algonquian language, also known as Virginia Algonquian. In 1607, an estimated...
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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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  • Powhatan is an Algic language. It is closely related to Unami, Munsee, Nanticoke, Massachusett, and other Eastern Algonquian languages, is more distantly...
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    Matawan, New Jersey (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    may derive from a Lenape language word meaning "where two rivers come together" or it may originate from the Southern Unami Matawonge, "bad riverbank"...
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    Northern Iroquoian language, closely related to the languages of the Haudenosaunee and in particular that of the Onondaga. The language is considered extinct...
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    Hoboken, New Jersey (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Hoboken (/ˈhoʊboʊkən/ HOH-boh-kən; Unami: Hupokàn) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan...
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    Pennsauken Township, New Jersey (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    derives from the language of the Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who once occupied the area from "Pindasenauken", the Lenape language term for tobacco...
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    Passaic River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Passaic River Pahsayèk (Unami) Passaic River in Bergen and Passaic Counties The Passaic and Hackensack watersheds Etymology Algonquian, meaning "peaceful...
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