North of Superior is a

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of the Ojibwe language spoken on the north shore of

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in the area east of

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. Communities include (east to west) Pic Mobert, Pic Heron, Pays Plat, Long Lac, Aroland, Rocky Bay, and Lake Helen, all in

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Dialect features

The distinctiveness of North of Superior is reflected in a small number of "grammatical features and substantial lexical features." North of Superior is in the

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group of Ojibwe dialects, but also contains a mixture of Ojibwe

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dialect features. Communities such as Aroland and Long Lac that are in the northern part of the dialect area show more features found in northern dialects. North of Superior 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. * Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. ''Ojibwe dialect relationships''. PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin {{refend Central Algonquian languages Ojibwa language, Central Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands First Nations languages in Canada

Dialect features

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