Munsee

Munsee
/mun"see/, n., pl. Munsees, (esp. collectively) Munsee for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Munsee and closely related peoples, originally spoken in the lower Hudson Valley and upper Delaware Valley.

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