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    Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) is an Algonquian language initially spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    from present-day New Jersey. The name Axion derives from assiscu, an Unami language term for "mud", and translates as "the muddy place". Other spellings...
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    from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa. Abenakian or Unami [wigwam] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: unc (help) (*weekuwôm) /wiːkəwãm/ instead...
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    subdivived into dialectal groups such as the Munsee, in the north, and the Unami and the Unalachtigo, elsewhere. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the...
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    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    regions of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere. Kinnikinnick (from the Unami language for "smoking mixture") is a common name in Canada and the United States...
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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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  • the first ship to be sunk by a submarine Housatonic, a dialect of the Unami language Housatonic (aka Housatannuck), reference to the Stockbridge Indians...
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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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    Delaware Tribe of Indians (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Delaware were divided into the Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo, three social divisions determined by language and location. After dealing with the United...
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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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    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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    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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    American mink (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Kutenai: ʔinuya Kwak̓wala: ma̱tsa Lakota: ikhúsą Lenape Munsee: wiiníingwus Unami: wininkwës Lillooet: t̓sexyátsen Lushootseed Northern Lushootseed: bəščəb...
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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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    Susquehanna River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    peoples who spoke Algonquian languages, such as the Lenape (whose bands spoke three dialects of Lenape), and Iroquoian languages-speaking peoples of the interior...
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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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    972 at the 2020 census. The name "Moosic" probably derives from the Unami language of the Lenape people, meaning "elk place". The Lenape, a Native American...
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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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    Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
    Lackawanna County (/ˌlækəˈwɒnə/; Unami: Lèkaohane) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and had...
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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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    Algonquian languages within their Glottolog database as follows: Eastern Algonquian Carolina Algonquian † Delawaran Common Delaware Munsee Unami †...
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    farmland along Saucon Creek. The name Saucon comes from the native Unami language word sakunk, meaning “at the mouth of the creek.” The township also...
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