Berens River Ojibwe is a dialect of the

Ojibwe language Ojibwe , also known as Ojibwa , Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian lan ...

spoken along the

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in northern

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and

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. Berens communities include

Pikangikum The Pikangikum First Nation (, Ojibwe language, Ojibwe: ''Bigaanjigamiing'', unpointed ᐱᑲᐣᒋᑲᒥᐠ,,pointed ᐱᑳᐣᒋᑲᒦᐣᐠ) is an Ojibwe First Nations in Canada, First Nation located on the Pikangikum 14 Indian reserve, Rese ...

and Poplar Hill, both in Ontario, well as Little Grand Rapids, in Manitoba. Berens is strongly distinguished from the Severn Ojibwe dialect spoken in communities directly to the north. Berens River Ojibwe is most commonly written using the

Cree syllabary Cree syllabics are the versions of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Cree dialects, including the original syllabics system created for Cree and Ojibwe. There are two main varieties of syllabics for Cree: Western Cree syllabics and E ...

widely used to write Ojibwe in northern Ontario. Berens River Ojibwe is not included in ''

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''.Gordon, Raymond G., 2005

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References

* Gordon Jr., Raymond G., ed., 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition.'
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. * Nichols, John. 1996. "The Cree syllabary." Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. ''The world's writing systems,'' 599-611. New York: Oxford University Press. * Fiero, Charles, with Norman Quill. 1973. ''Ojibwe Assimilation.'' Red Lake, ON: Northern Light Gospel Messions. * Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. ''Ojibwe dialect relationships.'' PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.

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