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Language code: del

Technical information about ISO 639 language code del

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The table below provides technical details for the Delaware language, designated by the del code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

del

Name

Delaware

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Munsee (Minsi) DelawareUnami Delaware
Related languages
MahicanNanticokeMassachusett (Wôpanâak)Shawnee
Key facts
Historically spoken by the Lenape people across the mid-Atlantic region of the United StatesThe two primary dialects, Munsee and Unami, show only partial mutual intelligibilityDelaware is a highly polysynthetic Algonquian language that can express an entire English sentence in a single verbContemporary revitalization efforts include community classes and the online Lenape Talking DictionarySeveral Delaware words entered English, such as “raccoon” and “moccasin.”
Sample phrase

Koolamalsi, kulamàlsi hàch?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Delaware language, identified by the code del, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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