Central Ojibwa language
| Central Ojibwa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Ontario |
Native speakers | 8,000 (2007)[1] |
Algic
| |
| 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. | |
| Person | Ojibwe ᐅᒋᐺ Anishinaabe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ |
|---|---|
| People | Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ / ᐅᒋᐺᐠ Anishinaabek ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐠ |
| Language | Ojibwemowin ᐅᒋᐺᒧᐎᓐ Anishinaabemowin ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ Hand Talk |
| Country | Ojibwewaki[4] ᐅᒋᐻᐘᑭ Anishinaabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐘᑭ |
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.[5]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]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.[6]
Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Central Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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
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