Overview
Arrow pointing down
Dormant

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

No programs

Discussion Forum

    Comments are not currently available for this post.

Language Information By Source

North America
Arrow pointing down
Dormant

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

The last speaker of Southern Unami died in 2002. Northern Unami dialect survived into the twentieth century among the Canadian Munsees.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Oklahoma

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Heritage language of the Delaware Tribe, near Bartlesville and Dewey, Oklahoma, and the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, near Anadarko. The last speaker died in 2002.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Heritage language of the Delaware Tribe, near Bartlesville and Dewey, Oklahoma, and the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, near Anadarko. The last speaker died in 2002.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Dormant

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No known speakers. US Census (2000) lists 308 who use it at home. Ethnic population: 13,500 (1997 J. Rementer)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

USA;

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Northeast and west central Oklahoma, north New Jersey, and lower Delaware Valley

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Northeast and west central Oklahoma, north New Jersey, and lower Delaware Valley

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

1

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

6-8

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

1

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

All

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Oklahoma

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Originally spoken in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware, Unami is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe, at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, at Anadarko.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Originally spoken in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware, Unami is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe, at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, at Anadarko.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

English

Domains of other languages

All except ritual, religious and ceremonial functions.

More on context

The Lenape Language Project, sponsored by the Delaware Tribe at Bartlesville, plans to integrate classes with existing child-care programs and is developing CD-ROMs in the language.

No data

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

USA, Oklahoma

Coordinates

40.0,-75.1666666667

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Media Resources

No resources

No resources

No resources

Filter By

No programs

  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
    Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  4. North America
    Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  6. North America
    Golla, Victor. 2007. "North America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 1-96. London & New York: Routledge.
  7. Pidgin Delaware
    Goddard, Ives. 1997. "Pidgin Delaware." In Contact languages: a wider perspective, edited by Sarah Grey Thomason. 17: 43-98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  8. A Grammar of the Language of Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians
    Duponceau, Peter S. 1830. "A Grammar of the Language of Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians." In Transaction of the American Philosophical Society, 3: 65-251.
  9. Delaware, an Eastern Algonquian Language
    Voegelin, C. F. 1946. "Delaware, An Eastern Algonquian Language." In Linguistic Structures of Native America, edited by Harry Hoijer. 6: 130-157. New York: Viking Fund.