Central Ojibwa language

Person	Ojibwe ᐅᒋᐺ; Anishinaabe; ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ
People	Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ / ᐅᒋᐺᐠ; Anishinaabek; ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐠ
Language	Ojibwemowin ᐅᒋᐺᒧᐎᓐ; Anishinaabemowin; ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ; Hand Talk
Country	Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ; Anishinaabewaki; ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ

Central Ojibwa
Central Ojibwa
Native to	Canada
Region	Ontario
Native speakers	8,000 (2007)
Language family	Algic Algonquian Ojibwe–Potawatomi Ojibwe Nuclear Ojibwe Central–Eastern–Southwestern Ojibwe Central–Southwestern Ojibwe? Central Ojibwa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ojc
Glottolog	cent2136
	Central Ojibwe is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Central Ojibwa (also known as Central Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is an Algonquian language spoken in Ontario, Canada from Lake Nipigon in the west to Lake Nipissing in the east.

Phonology

Vowels

Central Ojibwa has three vowel qualities, /i a o/, that are also distinguished by length and nasalization. There is an additional quality, /eː/, which only occurs long.

Consonants


		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	plain	labial	plain	labial
Fortis obstruent	plosive	pː ~ ʰp	tː ~ ʰt		kː ~ ʰk	kʷː ~ ʰkʷ	ʔ	ʔʷ
	sibilant		sː	ʃː
	affricate			tʃː ~ ʰtʃ
Lenis obstruent	plosive	p	t		k	kʷ
	sibilant		s	ʃ
	affricate			tʃ
Approximant				j		w
Nasal		m	n		ŋ

Notes

↑ Central Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved 2022-10-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian languages." June Helm, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic, pp. 52–66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-004578-9
↑ Jelsing, Kaden Mark (2023). Sovereign Futures: Indigenous and Settler Prophecies in Two Nineteenth-Century American "Northwests" (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of British Columbia. p. 57.
↑ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
1 2 Rhodes, Richard Alan (1976). The Morphosyntax of the Central Ojibwa Verb (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Michigan. pp. 2–3.
↑ Bloomfield, Leonard (1957). Eastern Ojibwa: Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 3–9.

External links

OLAC resources in and about the Central Ojibwa language

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[e18-1] Central Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Central-Eastern-Southwestern_Ojibwa-2] 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved 2022-10-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[3] Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian languages." June Helm, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic, pp. 52–66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-004578-9

[country-4] Jelsing, Kaden Mark (2023). Sovereign Futures: Indigenous and Settler Prophecies in Two Nineteenth-Century American "Northwests" (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of British Columbia. p. 57.

[5] Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[Rhodes-6] 1 2 Rhodes, Richard Alan (1976). The Morphosyntax of the Central Ojibwa Verb (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Michigan. pp. 2–3.

[7] Bloomfield, Leonard (1957). Eastern Ojibwa: Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 3–9.

Person	Ojibwe ᐅᒋᐺ Anishinaabe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ
People	Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ / ᐅᒋᐺᐠ Anishinaabek ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐠ
Language	Ojibwemowin ᐅᒋᐺᒧᐎᓐ Anishinaabemowin ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ Hand Talk
Country	Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ Anishinaabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ