Lenape

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ləˈnɑːpi/

Noun

Lenape (plural Lenapes or Lenape)

A group of native American people who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Synonyms

(people): Lenni-Lanape, Delaware

Proper noun

Lenape

The languages spoken by all of this group; Delaware
The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.

Synonyms

(language group): Delaware
(southern language): Unami

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