Lenguas Lenape: Munsee (verde claro) era al norte y dos dialectos de Unami al centro y sul
Munsee es una lengua en vías de extinción del subgrupo Algonquino Oriental, sendo una de las dos lenguas de los Lenape. Es muy cerca de la extinta Unami, la otra idioma Lenape. El Munsee fue antiguamente hablado por nativos en la actual Ciudad de Nueva York y las áreas vecinas, más precisamente Manhattan, Staten Island, el sul del valle del Río Hudson, el oeste de Long Island, el norte de Nueva Jersey, y el nordeste de Pensilvania.
Fonología
Consonantes
Consonantes Munsee
Bilabial
Dental
Postalveolar
Velar
Glotal
Stop
p
t
č [tʃ]
k
Fricativa
s
š [ʃ]
x
h
Nasal
m
n
Lateral
l
Semivogales
(w)
y [j]
w
Vocales
Vocales Munsee
Frontal
Central
Posterior
Cerrada
i• [iː], i [ɪ]
o• [oː], o [ʊ]
Media
e• [ɛː], e [ɛ]
ə
Abierta
a• [aː], a [ʌ]
Ortografía
Comparación entre las ortografías “práctica” y “linguística” del Munsee[1] con el uso del alfabeto latino:
Lingüística
Práctica
Español
Lingüística
Práctica
Español
Lingüística
Práctica
Español
Lingüística
Práctica
Español
ampi•lamé•kwa•n
ambiilaméekwaan
aguja
nkwə́ta•š
ngwútaash
seis
wčéht
wchéht
músculo
ăpánšəy
ăpánzhuy
madera
nə̆wánsi•n
nŭwánsiin
yo olvidé
xwánsal
xwánzal
hermano más viejo de él
ní•ša•š
níishaash
siete
ntəší•nsi
ndushíinzi
yo me llamo así y así
máske•kw
máskeekw
pantano
xá•š
xáash
ocho
ăpwá•n
ăpwáan
”pan
óhpwe•w
óhpweew
él fuma
wə́sksəw
wúsksuw
él es joven
ătíhte•w
ătíhteew
está maduro
kíhkay
kíhkay
jefe
máxkw
máxkw
oso
kwi•škwtó•nhe•w
kwiishkwtóonheew
él susurra
áhpăpo•n
áhpăpoon
silla
xwáškwšəš
xwáshkwshush
rata almizclera
pé•nkwan
péenɡwan
está seco
Bibliografía
Blalock, Lucy, Bruce Pearson y James Rementer. 1994. The Delaware Language. Bartlesville, OK: Delaware Tribe of Indians.
Brinton, Daniel G., y Albert Seqaqkind Anthony. 1888. A Lenâpé-English dictionary. From an anonymous manuscript in the archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Goddard, Ives. 1974a. "Dutch Loanwords in Delaware." Herbert C. Kraft, ed. A Delaware Indian Symposium, pp. 153–160. Anthropological Series No. 4. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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Goddard, Ives. 1994. "The West-to-East Cline in Algonquian Dialetoology." William Cowan, redactor, Papers of the 25th Algonquian Conference, pp. 187–211. Ottawa: Carleton University. ISSN 0831-5671
Pearson, Bruce. 1988. A Grammar of Delaware: Semantics, Morpho-Syntax, Lexicon, Fonologia. Dewey, OK: Touching Leaves Indian Crafts.
Zeisberger, David. 1887. Ebenezer N. Horsford, ed., Zeisberger's Indian Dictionary, English, German, Iroquois — the Onondaga, and Algonquin — the Delaware. Cambridge, MA: John Wilson.
Cohen, Patricia. 2010. Indian Tribes Go in Search of Their Lost Languages, New York Times, April 6, 2010, C1
Costa, David. J. 2007. "The dialetoology of Southern New England Algonquian. H.C. Wolfart, ed. Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference, pp. 81-127. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. ISSN 0831-5671
Dahlstrom, Amy. 1995. "Motivation vs. Predictability in Algonquian gender.” H. C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the Thirty-Third Algonquian Conference, 52-66. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. ISSN 0831-5671
Goddard, Ives. 1971. "The ethnohistorical implications of early Delaware linguistic materials." Man in the Northeast 1: 14-26.
Goddard, Ives. 1974. "The Delaware Language, Past and Present." Herbert C. Kraft, ed. A Delaware Indian Symposium, pp. 103–110. Anthropological Series No. 4. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Goddard, Ives. 1978. "Eastern Algonquian Languages." Bruce Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15, Northeast, pp. 70–77. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-004575-4
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Goddard, Ives. 1982. "Munsee historical Fonologia." International Journal of American Linguistics 48: 16-48.
Goddard, Ives. 1990. "Aspects of the Topic Structure of Fox Narratives: Proximate Shifts and the Use of Overt and Inflectional NPs." International Journal of American Linguistics 56: 317-340
Goddard, Ives. 1996. "Introduction." Ives Goddard, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17. Languages, pp. 1–16. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9
Goddard, Ives. 2002. "Grammatical gender in Algonquian." H.C. Wolfart, ed., Papers of the Thirty-Third Algonquian Conference, pp. 195–231. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. ISSN 0831-5671
Kraft, Herbert. 1986. The Lenape: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-911020-14-4
Kraft, Herbert. 1986a. "Settlement Patterns in the Upper Delaware Valley." Jay F. Custer, ed., Late Woodland Cultures of the Middle Atlantic Region, pp. 102–115. Newark: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-285-4
McDowell, Adam. 2009. "More than words: Can Canada's dying languages be saved?(enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el historial, la primera versión y la última).
Nichols, John D. and Earl Nyholm. 1995. A concise dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-2427-5
O'Meara, John. 1992. "Intransitive Verbs with Secondary Objects in Munsee Delaware." W. Cowan, ed., Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Algonquian Conference, pp. 322–333. Ottawa: Carleton University. ISSN 0831-5671
O'Meara, John. 1996. Delaware/English - English/Delaware Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0670-7
Rudes, Blair. 1997. 1997. "Resurrecting Wampano (Quiripi) from the dead: Phonological preliminaries." Anthropological Linguistics 39: 1-59
Snow, Dean. 1978. "Late prehistory of the East coast." Bruce Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15. Northeast, pp. 58-. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-004575-4
Williams, Lorraine E. 1995. "Indians and Europeans in the Delaware River Valley, 1620-1655." Carol E. Hoffecker, Richard Waldron, Lorraine E. Williams, and Barbara E. Benson, eds., New Sweden in America, pp. 112–120. Newark: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-520-6
Referencias
↑Ejemplos de O'Meara, John; Delaware/English - English/Delaware Dictionary, 1996, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0670-7
Enlaces externos
Munsee en Omniglot.com
Munsee en Ethnologue
Munsee en Nativa Languages
Lunaapeew Language, Delaware Nation Language, Cultural and Historical Department
Munsee, Ramapough Lenaape Nation
Language & Culture Committee, Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians
Collection of Hymns, in Muncey and English, for the Use of the Native Indians, 1874
OLAC resources in and about the Munsee language
Site devoted to the study of the Munsee Delaware language