Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ojibwe People's Dictionary—Online audio Ojibwe-English dictionary for the Anishinaabemowin language with 17,000+ words, 60,000 audio clips by Ojibwe elders from Minnesota and Ontario, and related images/documents/videos.
The Ojibwe language is an Algonquian North American indigenous language spoken throughout the Great Lakes region and westward onto the northern plains. It is one of the largest indigenous language north of Mexico in terms of number of speakers, and exhibits a large number of divergent dialects.
Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)
Ojibwe People's Dictionary; Ojibwe Waasa-Inaabidaa – PBS documentary featuring the history and culture of the Anishinaabe-Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes (United States-focused). Ojibwe migratory map from Ojibwe Waasa-Inaabidaa; Batchewana First Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; Mississaugi First Nation; Southeast Tribal Council
His work A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, explained in English is still considered the best reference regarding the Ojibwe vocabulary of western Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin. In his dictionary, grammar books, and prayer book, the sound representations of Ojibwe are shown in the table below.
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).
Okemos – Ojibwe word "ogimaa" meaning "chief", also etymology of Ogemaw County. Omena – Ojibwe expression "o-me-nah" meaning "is that so?". Onaway – Indian word "onawa" meaning "awake". [53] Oneida – named after the Oneida people. Onekama – Ojibwe word "onigama" meaning "singing water". Township of Onekama Township, Michigan
Ottawa is one of the Ojibwe dialects that has undergone the most language change, although it shares many features with other dialects. The most distinctive change is a pervasive pattern of vowel syncope that deletes short vowels in many words, resulting in significant changes in their pronunciation.