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The Ojibwe language is reported as spoken by a total of 8,791 people in the United States of which 7,355 are Native Americans and by as many as 47,740 in Canada, making it one of the largest Algic languages by numbers of speakers.
- (50,000 cited 1990–2016 censuses)
- (see Ojibwe dialects)
- Canada, United States
It is a Central Algonquian language spoken by the Anishinaabe people throughout much of Canada from Ontario to Manitoba and US border states from Michigan to Montana. It is centered around the Great Lakes homeland of the Ojibwe people.
Anishinaabemowin (also called Ojibwemowin, the Ojibwe/Ojibwa language, or Chippewa) is an Indigenous language, generally spanning from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.
Chippewa (Anishinaabemowin) is spoken in Michagan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin in the northern USA by about 5,000 people. It is also known as Minnesota Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwe or Southwestern Ojibwa. It is taught in primary schools, and written with the Latin alphabet.
Language: Ojibwe--otherwise anglicized as Chippewa, Ojibwa or Ojibway and known to its own speakers as Anishinabe or Anishinaabemowin--is an Algonquian language spoken by 50,000 people in the northern United States and southern Canada. There are five main dialects of Ojibwe: Western Ojibwe, Eastern Ojibwe, Northern Ojibwe (Severn Ojibwe or Oji ...
Ojibwe Country primarily extends from Quebec, across Ontario and Manitoba to Saskatchewan in Canada, and from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota in the United States. Ojibwe is not a single standardized language, but a chain of linked local varieties, grouped into nearly a dozen dialects.
The Ojibwe language is Anishinaabemowin, a branch of the Algonquian language family . They are part of the Council of Three Fires (which also include the Odawa and Potawatomi) and of the larger Anishinaabeg, which also include Algonquin, Nipissing, and Oji-Cree people.
