Northwestern Ojibwe (also known as Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is a
dialect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of Linguistics, linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety (linguisti ...
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 in
Ontario
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and
Manitoba
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,
Canada
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. Ojibwe is a member of the
Algonquian language family.
[Gordon Jr., Raymond. 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition.']
Ethnologue entry for Northwestern Ojibwe
Retrieved April 22, 2009.
See also
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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
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Northwestern Ojibwa language
Central Algonquian languages
Ojibwa language, Northwestern
Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
First Nations languages in Canada
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