Munsee

External 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"

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

Munsee translation of morning and evening prayers by the Church of England (1886) (scanned text)

Audio/Video

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