Eastern Ojibwa
Native toCanada
RegionOntario
Native speakers
(26,000[dubious – discuss] cited 1998 census)[1]
(appears to be double counted with other varieties)
Algic
Language codes
ISO 639-3ojg
Glottologeast2542
ELPEastern Ojibwe
Eastern Ojibwe is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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.[3] Ojibwe is an Algonquian language.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ Eastern Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b 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, p. 54, Fig. 2
  4. ^ 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. Ottawa: Carleton University. 7: 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.

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