Central Ojibwa language

Algonquian language spoken in Ontario

Central Ojibwa

Native to| Canada
Region| Ontario

Native speakers

| 8,000 (2007)[1]

Language family

Algic

* Algonquian
* Ojibwe–Potawatomi
* Ojibwe
* Nuclear Ojibwe[2]
* Central–Eastern–Southwestern Ojibwe[2]
* Central–Southwestern Ojibwe?[3]
* 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.[4]

## Phonology

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### Vowels

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Vowels | Nasal Vowels

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ʌ |
aː | ãː
eː | ẽː
I |
iː | ĩː
ʊ ~ o |
oː ~ uː | õː

#### Diphthongs

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Diphthongs

### Consonants

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Consonants

b ~ p
tʃː
d ~ t
g ~ k

dʒ ~ tʃ
k^h ~ kː^h

p^h ~ pː^h

t^h ~ tː^h

z ~ s
ʒ ~ ʃ

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## See also

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* Ojibwe dialects

## Notes

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1. ^ Central 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. "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
4. ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
5. ^ "Ojibwe Pronunciation and Spelling Guide (Chippewa, Ojibway, Ojibwa)". nativelanguages.org. Retrieved 15 December 2018.

## External links

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* OLAC resources in and about the Central Ojibwa language

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