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The Ojibwe language is reported as spoken by a total of 8,791 people in the United States [58] of which 7,355 are Native Americans [59] and by as many as 47,740 in Canada, [13] making it one of the largest Algic languages by numbers of speakers. [13]
Ojibwe has a series of three short oral vowels and four long ones. The two series are characterized by both length and quality differences. The short vowels are /ɪ o ə/ (roughly the vowels in American English bit, bot, and but, respectively) and the long vowels are /iː oː aː eː/ (roughly as in American English beet, boat, ball, and bay respectively).
Ojibwe Language Society. OLS Miinawaa — Yahoo Group extension of the Ojibwe Language Society; Rand Valentine's introduction to Ojibwe; Grammar, lessons, and dictionaries; Freelang Ojibwe Dictionary — Freeware off-line dictionary, updated with additional entries annually. Kevin L. Callahan's An Introduction to Ojibway Culture and History
Ojibwe, as with other Algonquian languages, also exhibits a direct–inverse system, in which transitive verbs are marked for whether or not the direction of the action follows a "topicality hierarchy" of the language. The topicality hierarchy in Ojibwe is 2 > 1 > X > 3 > 3’ > 0, determined by 1) person, 2) gender, and 3) obviation. [16]
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Severn Ojibwe, also called Oji-Cree or Northern Ojibwa, and Anihshininiimowin in the language itself, is spoken in northern Ontario and northern Manitoba.Although there is a significant increment of vocabulary borrowed from several Cree dialects, Severn Ojibwe is a dialect of Ojibwe. [16]
Ottawa (also spelled Odawa) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken in a series of communities in southern Ontario and a smaller number of communities in northern Michigan. Ottawa has a phonological inventory of seventeen consonants and seven oral vowels ; in addition, there are long nasal vowels the phonological status of which are ...
The language is often referred to in English as Oji-Cree, with the term Severn Ojibwa (or Ojibwe) primarily used by linguists and anthropologists. [3] Severn Ojibwa speakers have also been identified as Northern Ojibwa, [4] and the same term has been applied to their dialect. [5] Severn Ojibwa speakers use two self-designations in their own ...