Eastern Ojibwa language

Eastern Ojibwa
Native to	Canada
Region	Ontario
Native speakers	(26,000[ dubious – discuss ] cited 1998 census) [1] (appears to be double counted with other varieties)
Language family	Algic Algonquian Ojibwe-Potawatomi Ojibwe Nuclear Ojibwe [2] Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa [2] Eastern Ojibwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ojg
Glottolog	east2542
ELP	Eastern Ojibwe
Eastern Ojibwe is classified as Severely 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 [3] ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ     Anishinaabewaki    ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ

Eastern Ojibwe (also known as Ojibway, Ojibwa) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken north of Lake Ontario and east of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. Eastern Ojibwe-speaking communities include Rama and Curve Lake. ^[4] Ojibwe is an Algonquian language. ^[5]

See also

• Ojibwe language
• Ojibwe dialects

Notes

1. Eastern 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. 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.
4. Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd, 1981, p. 54, Fig. 2
5. Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994.

References

• King, Alice; Rogers, Jean (1985). Nichols, John (ed.). The Stories of Alice King of Parry Island. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. Winnipeg: Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. OCLC   41764511.
• King, Alice; Rogers, Jean (1988). "Parry Island Texts". In Bloomfield, Leonard; Nichols, John D. (eds.). An Ojibwe Text Anthology. London, ON: The Centre for Teaching and Research of Canadian Native Languages, University of Western Ontario. pp. 69–106. ISBN   0-7714-1046-8.
• Rhodes, Richard (1976). Cowan, W. (ed.). "A Preliminary Report on the Dialects of Eastern Ojibwa–Odawa". Papers of the Seventh Algonquian Conference. 7. Ottawa: Carleton University: 129–156.
• Rhodes, Richard A. (1985). Eastern Ojibwa–Chippewa–Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN   3-11-013749-6.
• Rhodes, Richard; Todd, Evelyn (1981). "Subarctic Algonquian Languages". In Helm, June (ed.). The Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 6. Subarctic. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 52–66.
• Rogers, Edward (1978). "Southeastern Ojibwa". In Trigger, Bruce (ed.). The Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Northeast. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 760–771.
• Snache, Irene (2005). Ojibwe Language Dictionary. Rama, ON: Mnjikaning Kendaaswin Publishers. ISBN   1-894632-01-X.
• Valentine, J. Randolph (1994). Ojibwe Dialect Relationships (PhD dissertation). Austin: University of Texas.

External links

• OLAC resources in and about the Eastern Ojibwa language