Ojibwe-language

Ojibwe
Ojibwa, Chippewa
Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
Pronunciation	[anɪʃːɪnaːpeːmowɪn]
Native to	Canada, United States
Region	Canada: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, groups in Alberta, British Columbia; United States: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, groups in North Dakota, Montana
Ethnicity	Ojibwe people
Native speakers	(90,000 cited 1990–2010, 100,880 including all other dialects not included in Ethnologue.)
Language family	Algic Algonquian Central Algonquian Ojibwe
Dialects	(see Ojibwe dialects)
Writing system	Latin (various alphabets in Canada and the United States), Ojibwe syllabics in Canada, Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics in the United States
Language codes
ISO 639-1	oj – Ojibwa
ISO 639-2	oji – Ojibwa
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code – Ojibwa Individual codes:  – Severn Ojibwa  – Eastern Ojibwa  – Central Ojibwa  – Northwestern Ojibwa  – Western Ojibwa  – Chippewa  – Ottawa  – Algonquin
Glottolog	ojib1241  Ojibwa
Linguasphere	62-ADA-d (Ojibwa+Anissinapek)
Location of all Anishinaabe Reservations/Reserves and cities with an Anishinaabe population in North America, with diffusion rings about communities speaking Anishinaabe languages.
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Ojibwe /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/, also known as Ojibwa,Ojibway, Chippewa, or Otchipwe, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. Ojibwe is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system that covers all dialects. The relative autonomy of the regional dialects of Ojibwe is associated with an absence of linguistic or political unity among Ojibwe-speaking groups.

Dialects of Ojibwe are spoken in Canada, from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan, with outlying communities in Alberta; and in the United States, from Michigan through Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a number of communities in North Dakota and Montana, as well as groups that removed to Kansas and Oklahoma during the Indian Removal period. While there is some variation in the classification of Ojibwe dialects, at a minimum the following are recognized, proceeding east to west: Algonquin, Eastern Ojibwe, Ottawa (Odawa), Western Ojibwe (Saulteaux), Oji-Cree (Severn Ojibwe), Northwestern Ojibwe, and Southwestern Ojibwe (Chippewa). Based upon contemporary field research, J. R. Valentine also recognizes several other dialects: Berens Ojibwe in northwestern Ontario, which he distinguishes from Northwestern Ojibwe; North of (Lake) Superior; and Nipissing. The latter two cover approximately the same territory as Central Ojibwa, which he does not recognize.