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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. [7] [8] The language is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and ...
- (50,000 cited 1990–2016 censuses)
- (see Ojibwe dialects)
- Canada, United States
The Ojibwe ( syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland ( Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) [3] covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands. Ojibweg, being Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and of the ...
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The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Along with detailed Ojibwe language entries and voices, you will find beautiful cultural items, photographs, and excerpts from ...
Dec 18, 2017 · Published Online December 18, 2017. Last Edited December 5, 2023. 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.
The variety of Ojibwe used in the Ojibwe People's Dictionary is the Central Southwestern Ojibwe spoken in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canadian border lakes communities. Today, it is spoken mainly by elders over the age of 70. Ethnologue reports 5,000 speakers of Southwestern Chippewa (Lewis, 2009), but a 2009 language census by language activists ...
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 ...
babaamishkaa vai s/he paddles about, goes about in a boat. go about on business. babaamizi vai s/he does business, goes about on his business. go about on the ice. babaamaadagaako vai s/he goes about on the ice. babaamaadagaakobatoo vai s/he runs about on the ice, around on the ice. go about crying.
