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Munsee, originally the language of the lower Hudson River, including the New York City metropolitan area, is the heritage language of the Delaware First Nation, on the Moraviantown Reserve, near Thamesville, Ontario.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Delaware, Ontario Delaware, Munsee Delaware, Canadian Delaware
CLASSIFICATION		Algic, Algonquian, Eastern Algonquian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		umu
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Wappinger Munsee
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
few
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number: "a few."

A few speakers remain among the Delaware First Nation on the Moraviantown Reserve near Thamesville, Ontario.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Canada; USA;

Critically endangered

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
No known native speakers
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2001

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada; USA;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Munsee is the heritage language of the Delaware First Nation, on the
Moraviantown Reserve, near Thamesville, Ontario.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Canada; USA;

PLACES: Canada; USA;

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
400
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers and the ethnic population come from Kinkade (1991).

(Unchanged 2016.)

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada; USA;

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide

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		2007	North America	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	1-96	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge			Victor Golla	Golla, Victor. 2007. "North America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 1-96. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD		No known native speakers	2001	1-9			Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	15	15	Canada; USA;	Munsee is the heritage language of the Delaware First Nation, on the Moraviantown Reserve, near Thamesville, Ontario.
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.														41.5,-74.6666666667
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	400	7		1-9	Data for the number of native speakers and the ethnic population come from Kinkade (1991). (Unchanged 2016.)		Critically Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15		15	Canada; USA;
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		10		10-99			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Canada; USA;		40.8969,-76.3769
		2008	North America	Atlas of the World's Languages	7-41	Chris Moseley and Ron Asher	Routledge	London		Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco	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.			few		1-9	Speaker number: "a few." A few speakers remain among the Delaware First Nation on the Moraviantown Reserve near Thamesville, Ontario.	English	Critically Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15		15	Canada; USA;
	2nd edition	2010	Endangered Languages of the United States	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing	108-130	Christopher Moseley	UNESCO	Paris		Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell	Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari and Lyle Campbell. 2010. "Endangered Languages of the United States." In Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing, edited by Christopher Moseley. 108-130. UNESCO.												Canada; USA;		40.8969,-76.3769; 42.57,-81.879
			World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			7		1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

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80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

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100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

No known native speakers

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20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7

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7

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