Ojibwe language

Ojibwe
Ojibwa
Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
Pronunciation	alg or alg
Native to	Canada, United States
Region	Canada: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, groups in Alberta, British Columbia; United States: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, groups in North Dakota, Montana
Ethnicity	Ojibwe people
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1990–2016 censuses)e24
Language family	Algic Algonquian Ojibwe-Potawatomi Ojibwe
Dialects	(see Ojibwe dialects)
Writing system	Latin (various alphabets in Canada and the United States) Ojibwe syllabics (Canada) Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics (United States)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	oj – Ojibwa
ISO 639-2	oji – Ojibwa
ISO 639-3	oji – inclusive code – Ojibwa Individual codes: ojs – Severn Ojibwa ojg – Eastern Ojibwa ojc – Central Ojibwa ojb – Northwestern Ojibwa ojw – Western Ojibwa ciw – Chippewa otw – Ottawa alq – Algonquin
Glottolog	ojib1241  Ojibwa
Linguasphere	62-ADA-d (Ojibwa+Anissinapek)
Location of all Anishinaabe Reservations/​Reserves and cities with an Anishinaabe population in North America, with diffusion rings about communities speaking Anishinaabe languages
Ojibwe is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Ojibwe (/oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ oh-JIB-way),^[1] also known as Ojibwa (/oʊˈdʒɪbwə/ oh-JIB-wə),^[2][3][4] Ojibway, Otchipwe,^[5] Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family.^[6][7] The language has many dialects that have local names and writing systems.

Dialects of Ojibwemowin are spoken in Canada, from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan, with outlying communities in Alberta;^[8][9] and in the United States, from Michigan to Wisconsin and Minnesota, with some communities in North Dakota and Montana.^[10]

1. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Ojibwa". Glottolog 4.3.
3. ↑ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: oji". ISO 639-2 Registration Authority – Library of Congress. Retrieved July 4, 2017. Name: Ojibwa
4. ↑ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: oji". ISO 639-3 Registration Authority – SIL International. Retrieved July 4, 2017. Name: Ojibwa
5. ↑ R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language
6. ↑ Goddard, Ives, 1979.
7. ↑ Bloomfield, Leonard, 1958.
8. ↑ Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994, p. 6.
9. ↑ Nichols, John, 1980, pp. 1–2.
10. ↑ Rhodes, Richard, and Evelyn Todd, 1981.