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Eastern Ojibwe (also known as Ojibway, Ojibwa) 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 north of
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and east of
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in
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, Canada. Eastern Ojibwe-speaking communities include
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and Curve Lake. Ojibwe is an Algonquian language.Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994.


See also

*
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 ...
*
Ojibwe dialects 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. ...


Notes


References

* King, Alice and Jean Rogers. Ed. John Nichols. 1985. ''The Stories of Alice King of Parry Island.'' Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Readers and Study Guides. Winnipeg: Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. * King, Alice and Jean Rogers. 1988. "Parry Island Texts." Edited by Leonard Bloomfield and John D. Nichols. John Nichols, ed., ''An Ojibwe Text Anthology,'' 69-106. London: The Centre for Teaching and Research of Canadian Native Languages, University of Western Ontario. * Rhodes, Richard. 1976. "A Preliminary Report on the Dialects of Eastern Ojibwa–Odawa." W. Cowan, ed., ''Papers of the Seventh Algonquian Conference,'' 129-156. Ottawa: Carleton University. * Rhodes, Richard A. 1985. ''Eastern Ojibwa–Chippewa–Ottawa Dictionary''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. * Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian Languages." June Helm, ed., ''The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic,'' 52-66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. * Rogers, Edward. 1978. "Southeastern Ojibwa." Bruce Trigger, ed., ''The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15. Northeast,'' 760-771. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. * Snache, Irene. 2005. ''Ojibwe Language Dictionary.''Rama, ON: Mnjikaning Kendaaswin Publishers. * Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. ''Ojibwe Dialect Relationships.'' PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin. {{refend


External links


OLAC resources in and about the Eastern Ojibwa language
Central Algonquian languages Ojibwa language, Eastern Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands First Nations languages in Canada