Northwestern Ojibwa

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.^[3]

Northwestern Ojibwa
Native to	Canada
Region	Ontario, Manitoba
Native speakers	20,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Algic Algonquian Ojibwe-Potawatomi Ojibwe Nuclear Ojibwe[2] Northwestern-Saulteaux Ojibwa[2] Northwestern Ojibwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ojb
Glottolog	nort2961
Northwestern Ojibwe is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

See also

• Ojibwe dialects

Notes

1. Northwestern Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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. Gordon Jr., Raymond. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue entry for Northwestern Ojibwe. Retrieved April 22, 2009.

External links

• OLAC resources in and about the Northwestern Ojibwa language