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Chippewa (native name: Anishinaabemowin; [4] also known as Southwestern Ojibwa/Ojibwe/Ojibway/ Ojibwemowin) is an Algonquian language spoken from upper Michigan westward to North Dakota in the United States. [4] It represents the southern component of the Ojibwe language.
Ojibwe (/ oʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ b w eɪ / oh-JIB-way), [2] also known as Ojibwa (/ oʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ b w ə / oh-JIB-wə), [3] [4] [5] Ojibway, Otchipwe, [6] Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. [7] [8] The language is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and ...
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 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".
Margaret A. Noodin (née O’Donnell) is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She is a professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee [3] and Associate Dean of the Humanities. [1] She also directs a tribal Head Start program in Minnesota. [1]
The gender distinction in Ojibwe is not a masculine/feminine contrast, but is rather between animate and inanimate.Animate nouns are generally living things, and inanimate ones generally nonliving things, although that is not a simple rule because of the cultural understanding as to whether a noun possesses a "spirit" or not (generally, if it can move, it possesses a "spirit").
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 .
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