Unalachtigo Lenape
Lenapehoking, the original Lenape territory. The Unalachtigo are from the southern region in dark green | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| United States ( New Jersey) | |
| Languages | |
| English, formerly Unami | |
| Religion | |
| traditional tribal religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Lenape |
The Unalachtigo were a division of the Lenape (Delaware Indians), a Native American tribe whose homeland Lenapehoking was in what is today the Northeastern United States. They were part of the Forks Indians.
The name was a Munsee language term for the Unami-speakers of west-central New Jersey. Moravian missionaries called the Lenape people of the Forks region near Easton, Pennsylvania "Unami," and the Northern Unami language-speakers in New Jersey "Unalachtigo." It is debated whether Unalachtigo constituted a distinct dialect of Unami. Unalachtigo words were recorded in 17th-century vocabulary drawn from the Sankhikan band of Lenape in New Jersey.
The Sankhikan band were enemies of the Manhattan people, who spoke Munsee.