Northwestern Ojibwa

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Northwestern Ojibwa
Native to Canada
Region Ontario, Manitoba
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 2000) [1]
Algic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ojb
Glottolog nort2961
Lang Status 80-VU.svg
Northwestern Ojibwe is classified as Vulnerable 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
CountryOjibwewaki [3] ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ
    Anishinaabewaki
   ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ

Northwestern Ojibwe (also known as Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language, spoken in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. Ojibwe is a member of the Algonquian language family. [4]

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  1. Northwestern Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Northwestern-Saulteaux 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. Gordon Jr., Raymond. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue entry for Northwestern Ojibwe. Retrieved April 22, 2009.