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Ojibwe ( / oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ / oh-JIB-way ), [2] also known as Ojibwa ( / oʊˈdʒɪbwə / oh-JIB-wə ), [3] [4] [5] Ojibway, Otchipwe, [6] Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family.
- (50,000 cited 1990–2016 censuses)
- (see Ojibwe dialects)
- Canada, United States
The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. They are Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic and Northeastern Woodlands . According to the U.S. census, Ojibwe people are one of the largest tribal populations among Native ...
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Ojibwe has been called by many names including Anishinaabemowin, Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwa, Southwestern Chippewa, and Chippewa. 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.
Ojibwe is the heritage language of more than 200,000 Ojibwe people who reside in the United States and Canada. 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.
Eastern Ojibwa (Jibwemwin, Nishnaabemwin) is spoken in parts of Ontario in Canada by about 25,900 people (in 1998). It is also known as Ojibway or Ojibwe. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and taught in primary schools. Northwestern Ojibwa (Nakawēmowin) is spoken in Manitoba and Ontario provinces of Canada by about 20,000 people (in 2000).
The Ojibwe language is spoken in a series of dialects occupying adjacent territories, forming a language complex in which mutual intelligibility between adjacent dialects may be comparatively high but declines between some non-adjacent dialects. Mutual intelligibility between some non-adjacent dialects, notably Ottawa, Severn Ojibwe, and ...
Ojibwe grammar. The Ojibwe language is an Algonquian American Indian language spoken throughout the Great Lakes region and westward onto the northern plains. It is one of the largest American Indian languages north of Mexico in terms of number of speakers, and exhibits a large number of divergent dialects.
