Difference between revisions of "Munsee"

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External Resources

Computational Resources

Dictionaries

• Delaware-English, English-Delaware Dictionary by John O'Meara: first modern dictionary of Munsee Delaware, containing 7,100 entries which include grammatical information. Professor Washington has a scanned copy. All rights reserved.

Grammatical Descriptions

• Wikipedia page on Munsee grammar

• Munsee Delaware website by Robert Shubinski: contains extensive grammar lessons and example sentences based on the works of John O'Meara and Ives Goddard.

• John O'Meara (1954) - "Delaware Stem Morphology" (dissertation)

• Bruce Pearson (1972) - "A Grammar of Delaware: Semantics, Morpho-Syntax, Lexicon, Phonology" (dissertation)

• Ives Goddard (1983) - "The Eastern Algonquian Subordinative Mode and the Importance of Morphology"

Scientific Works

Corpora

Native Languages of the Americas: compilation of Munsee language resources (free for use for noncommercial educational purposes) including:

• Munsee words for animals

• Munsee words for body parts

• Munsee words for colors with distinction between animate and inanimate nouns

• Munsee words for numbers

• Munsee words for food

• "When My Uncle Was Bewitched": story in Munsee with English translation

Collection of hymns in Munsee and English translated by Charles Halfmoon (1874) (scanned text)

Catechisms (summary of Christian principles) in Munsee (1852) (scanned text with no English translation)

Munsee translation of morning and evening prayers by Church of England, J. B. Wampum, and H. C. Hogg (1886) (scanned text)

Audio/Video

• Oral narration of the story of Noah in Munsee (no text available)