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The general grammatical characteristics of Ojibwe are shared across its dialects. The Ojibwe language is polysynthetic, exhibiting characteristics of synthesis and a high morpheme-to-word ratio. Ojibwe is a head-marking language in which inflectional morphology on nouns and particularly verbs carries significant amounts of grammatical information.
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).
The gender distinction in Ojibwe is not a masculine/feminine contrast, but is rather between animate and inanimate.Animate nouns are generally living things, and inanimate ones generally nonliving things, although that is not a simple rule because of the cultural understanding as to whether a noun possesses a "spirit" or not (generally, if it can move, it possesses a "spirit").
Ahmeek – Ojibwe word "amik" meaning "beaver". Bay de Noc. Big Bay de Noc; Little Bay de Noc; Algonquin – named after the Algonquin people. Algonquin Lake; Algonquin Lake (Barry County) Aloha. Village of Aloha; Assinins – from the Ojibwe word "asiniinsikaajiigibiig". Chesaning – Ojibwe word meaning "big rock place". Shared with the ...
Word-internally long nasal vowels are represented by orthographic ny , as in Southwestern Ojibwe mindimooyenyag ' old women '. [ 23 ] The nasalized allophones of the vowels, which occur predictably preceding the nasal + fricative clusters ns, nz , and nzh are not indicated in writing, in words such as gaawiin ingikend an ziin "I don't know it ...
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]
Some Dakota and Ojibwe placenames are based on Iowa language, a people that had significant presence in the Southern portion of the state until the 16th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many [ 1 ] Minnesota placenames are translations or mistranslations, mispronunciations, or Romanized transcriptions of Native placenames and descriptions.
The exonym for this Anishinaabe group is Ojibwe (plural: Ojibweg). This word has two variations, one French (Ojibwa) and the other English (Chippewa). [8] Although many variations exist in the literature, Chippewa is more common in the United States, and Ojibway predominates in Canada, [9] but both terms are used in each country.