Unami

A language of United States

Delaware, Lenape, Lenni-Lenape

No known L1 speakers, but emerging L2 speakers. The last known speaker, Edward Thompson, died in 2002. Ethnic population: 11,000 (2015).

Oklahoma: Andarko, Bartlesville.

9 (Reawakening). Language of registered tribe: Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians.

Northern Unami, Southern Unami, Unalachtigo. A member of macrolanguage Delaware [del].

Polysynthetic language.

Shifted to English [eng].

Grammar. Texts. Lenape Language Project involved with revitalization.