Eastern Ojibwe (also known as Ojibway, Ojibwa) is a dialect of the
Ojibwe language
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spoken north of
Lake Ontario
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and east of
Georgian Bay
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in
Ontario
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, Canada. Eastern Ojibwe-speaking communities include
Rama
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and
Curve Lake. Ojibwe is an
Algonquian language.
[Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994.]
See also
*
Ojibwe language
Ojibwe , also known as Ojibwa , Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian la ...
*
Ojibwe dialects
The Ojibwe language is spoken in a series of dialects occupying adjacent territories, forming a language complex in which mutual intelligibility between adjacent dialects may be comparatively high but declines between some non-adjacent dialects. ...
Notes
References
* King, Alice and Jean Rogers. Ed. John Nichols. 1985. ''The Stories of Alice King of Parry Island.'' Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, Readers and Study Guides. Winnipeg: Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba.
* King, Alice and Jean Rogers. 1988. "Parry Island Texts." Edited by Leonard Bloomfield and John D. Nichols. John Nichols, ed., ''An Ojibwe Text Anthology,'' 69-106. London: The Centre for Teaching and Research of Canadian Native Languages, University of Western Ontario.
* Rhodes, Richard. 1976. "A Preliminary Report on the Dialects of Eastern Ojibwa–Odawa." W. Cowan, ed., ''Papers of the Seventh Algonquian Conference,'' 129-156. Ottawa: Carleton University.
* Rhodes, Richard A. 1985. ''Eastern Ojibwa–Chippewa–Ottawa Dictionary''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
* Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian Languages." June Helm, ed., ''The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic,'' 52-66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution.
* Rogers, Edward. 1978. "Southeastern Ojibwa." Bruce Trigger, ed., ''The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 15. Northeast,'' 760-771. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution.
* Snache, Irene. 2005. ''Ojibwe Language Dictionary.''Rama, ON: Mnjikaning Kendaaswin Publishers.
* Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. ''Ojibwe Dialect Relationships.'' PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.
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External links
OLAC resources in and about the Eastern Ojibwa language
Central Algonquian languages
Ojibwa language, Eastern
Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
First Nations languages in Canada