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Consonants are comparable to their English counterparts and are written: b ch d g h ' j k l n nh p r s sh t w y z zh . Letters not used in Chippewa are f l r u v and x . The letter c is used only in a digraph, and the letter h is mostly used in digraphs, but on very rare occasions, usually in exclamations, occurs independently.
Bungi Creole is an English-based Creole language spoken in Manitoba by the descendants of "English, Scottish, and Orkney fur traders and their Cree or Saulteaux wives ...". [ 76 ] Bungee incorporates elements of Cree; the name may be from the Ojibwe word bangii 'a little bit' or the Cree equivalent, but whether there is any other Ojibwe ...
Anishinaabe Giizhigad is the Anishinaabemowin translation of "Anishinaabe Day." [ 3 ] " Anishinaabe " means "person" or a "Native person (in contrast to non-Native)." [ 4 ] Transcribed into syllabics , it becomes "ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᐟ" in the North and "ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᑦ" in the East.
The Anishinaabe speak Anishinaabemowin, or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. At the time of first contact with Europeans they lived in the Northeast Woodlands and the Subarctic, and some have since spread to the Great Plains. The word Anishinaabe means "people from whence lowered".
Anishinaabemowin is frequently referred to as a "Central Algonquian" language; Central Algonquian is an area grouping, however, rather than a linguistic genetic one. Ojibwemowin is the fourth-most spoken Native language in North America after Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut.
Ojibwe has a series of three short oral vowels and four long ones. The two series are characterized by both length and quality differences. The short vowels are /ɪ o ə/ (roughly the vowels in American English bit, bot, and but, respectively) and the long vowels are /iː oː aː eː/ (roughly as in American English beet, boat, ball, and bay respectively).
The Anishinaabe peoples are divided into a number of doodeman, or clans, (singular: doodem) named mainly for animal totems (or doodem, as an Ojibwe person would say this word in English). [1] In Anishinaabemowin, ode' means heart.
The language is often referred to in English as Oji-Cree, with the term Severn Ojibwa (or Ojibwe) primarily used by linguists and anthropologists. [3] Severn Ojibwa speakers have also been identified as Northern Ojibwa, [4] and the same term has been applied to their dialect. [5] Severn Ojibwa speakers use two self-designations in their own ...