Lengua munsee

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La lengua munsee (conossuda anca cont el nom ingles Delaware) l’è vun di su sotlinguagg de la lingua delaware (o Lenape o Lunaapeew). La parten a la famija di lengue algonchine e l’era parlada di nativ american stanziad in di territori che al dì d’incoeu corrisponden ai stat de New York e Pennsylvania. L’è ona lengua adree a estingues che la resta viva infra i poch vegg de la riserva indiana de Moravian (Ontario, Canada).

Carta che l’indica i frontere barber di territori di Delaware. El territori Munsee l’è la zona pussee ciara a Nord, el territori Unami è a Sud.

La lengua l’è compagna de la lengua unami (oramai estinta), tant che la pussee part di studios la considera i do lengue ‘me dialet de la lingua delaware, ciapad insema cont el mahican, segond on quai linguista, farissen su el grup di lengue delawaran.

Bibliografia

• Blalock, Lucy; Pearson, Bruce; Rementer, James, 1994, The Delaware Language., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Delaware Tribe of Indians.
• Costa, David J. 2007 The dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian in Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference pag=81-127 Winnipeg, University of Manitoba
• Delaware Nation Council, 1992, Lunaapeew Dictionary. Basic Words. Part One., Moraviantown, Delaware Nation Council.
• Goddard, Ives, 1974, « The Delaware Language, Past and Present. », Herbert C. Kraft ed., A Delaware Indian Symposium, pagg. 103-110, Anthropological Series No. 4, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
• Goddard, Ives 1978 Delaware in Handbook of North American Indians vol. 15 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington
• Goddard, Ives 1979 Comparative Algonquian Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, University of Texas Press in The languages of Native America, Austin
• Goddard, Ives 1982 Munsee historical phonology in International Journal of American Linguistics pagg. 16-48
• Gordon, Raymond G. 2005 Ethnologue: Languages of the World SIL International, Dallas
• O'Meara, John 1996 Delaware/English - English/Delaware Dictionary University of Toronto Press
• Pearson, Bruce, 1988, A Grammar of Delaware: Semantics, Morpho-Syntax, Lexicon, Phonology., Dewey, Oklahoma, Touching Leaves Indian Crafts.
• Snow, Dean, 1978, « Late prehistory of the East coast. », Bruce Trigger ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15, Northeast, pag. 58, Washington, The Smithsonian Institution.