Central Ojibwa language

Central Ojibwa
Native to	Canada
Region	Ontario
Native speakers	8,000 (2007) [1]
Language family	Algic Algonquian Ojibwe–Potawatomi Ojibwe Nuclear Ojibwe [2] Central–Eastern–Southwestern Ojibwe [2] Central–Southwestern Ojibwe? [3] Central Ojibwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ojc
Glottolog	cent2136
Central Ojibwe is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Person	Ojibwe ᐅᒋᐺ     Anishinaabe    ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ
People	Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ / ᐅᒋᐺᐠ    Anishinaabek    ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐠ
Language	Ojibwemowin ᐅᒋᐺᒧᐎᓐ     Anishinaabemowin    ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ Hand Talk
Country	Ojibwewaki [4] ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ     Anishinaabewaki    ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ

Central Ojibwa (also known as Central Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is an Algonquian language spoken in Ontario, Canada from Lake Nipigon in the west to Lake Nipissing in the east. ^[5]

Phonology

Vowels

Vowels	Nasal Vowels
ʌ
aː	ãː
eː	ẽː
I
iː	ĩː
ʊ ~ o
oː ~ uː	õː

Diphthongs

Diphthongs
aw
aj
ew
ej
iw
ij
ow

Consonants

Consonants
b ~ p
tʃː
d ~ t
g ~ k
h
dʒ ~ tʃ
k^h ~ kː^h
m
n
p^h ~ pː^h
sː
ʃː
t^h ~ tː^h
w
j
z ~ s
ʒ ~ ʃ
ʔ

^[6]

See also

• Ojibwe dialects

Notes

1. Central Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa". Glottolog . Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
3. Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian languages." June Helm, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic, pp. 52–66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN   0-16-004578-9
4. Jelsing, Kaden Mark (2023). Sovereign Futures: Indigenous and Settler Prophecies in Two Nineteenth-Century American "Northwests" (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of British Columbia. p. 57.
5. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
6. "Ojibwe Pronunciation and Spelling Guide (Chippewa, Ojibway, Ojibwa)". nativelanguages.org. Retrieved 15 December 2018.

External links

• OLAC resources in and about the Central Ojibwa language