{"id":37,"date":"2020-07-14T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2020-08-10T06:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:24:58","slug":"%e1%90%8a%e1%93%82%e1%94%91%e1%93%87%e1%90%af%e1%92%a7%e1%90%8e%e1%93%90-anishinaabe-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/languagegeek.com\/lgwp\/languages\/algonquian-languages\/%e1%90%8a%e1%93%82%e1%94%91%e1%93%87%e1%90%af%e1%92%a7%e1%90%8e%e1%93%90-anishinaabe-language\/","title":{"rendered":"\u140a\u14c2\u1511\u14c7\u142f\u14a7\u140e\u14d0 Anishinaabe Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Northern Ojibwe Text<\/a> \u2022 Northwestern Ojibwe Text<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anishinaabemowin (ISO 639-3 oji) is the second most widely spoken Native language in Canada. The people and language go under many English names: Ojibway, Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa, etc. Anishinaabe is the appropriate Native name, although there are spelling and pronunciation variants. The language is spoken throughout Ontario, southern Manitoba, eastern Saskatchewan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Michigan: basically the area surrounding the Great Lakes, and west of that region. Ojibwe is often grouped together with Odawa as well as other Algonquian languages which are quite similar, including: Potawatomi, Algonquin, and Oji-Cree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the language crosses many different modern-day borders and jurisdictions, it is no surprise that there have been a plethora of writing systems devised, by missionaries, linguists, educators, as well as Native speakers themselves. Over the years, several have become more commonly used, including the Nichols-Fiero Roman orthography and Ojibwe Syllabics<\/a>. Syllabics is restricted primarily to Saulteaux (Plains Ojibwe) and dialects in Northern Ontario. The Nichols-Fiero writing system has become very wide-spread recently, and is currently used by many teachers and textbooks. The sounds of Ojibwe are given below, using Nichols-Fiero. This orthography is recognisable by its double vowels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian Census<\/a> counts 46,685 people with knowledge of Ojibwe and related languages in 2016, up from from 30,505 in 2001. According to Howe and Cook<\/a>, there are 45,000 (including other related languages). There are 9,735 speakers in the United States as of 2013 (U.S. Census<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Contents<\/p>\n