The
Delaware languages, also known as the
Lenape languages, are
Munsee and
Unami, two closely related languages of the
Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the
Algonquian language family. Munsee and Unami were spoken
aboriginally by the
Lenape people in the vicinity of the modern
New York City area in the
United States, including western
Long Island,
Manhattan Island,
Staten Island, as well as adjacent areas on the mainland:
southeastern New York State, eastern
Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and coastal
Delaware.