actually, you wouldn't want to pronounce everything in in lenape as if it were german. German pronounes this letter "w" as if it were a "v." In lenape "w" has a differnt sound. Run your tongue along the roof of your mouth, notice that you feelthe hard palate then the soft palate; the distinction will be important in a minute. When we pronounce "y" in english, we raise the back of the tongue towards the hard palate and keep our lips unrounded, when we pronounce "w" we raise a point further back on the tongue towards the soft palate and round our lips. The ;etter "w" in lenape indicates a s