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Classification: Algic
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Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe, Chippeway, Plains Ojibway, Western Ojibwa, Salteaux, Nakawēmowin |
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Algic, Algonquian, Ojibwa-Potawatomi |
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ISO 639-3 |
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ojw |
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
Manitoba. Most varieties of Saulteaux are spoken in southern Manitoba in the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg, including a large urban population in the city of Winnipeg, although there are speakers as far west as British Columbia.
Information from: “ Report on the status of B.C. First Nations Languages” . Britt Dunlop, Suzanne Gessner, Tracey Herbert & Aliana Parker (2018) First People's Cultural Council
All Ojibwa varieties together are 20,470 as of the 2016 Canadian census.
Information from: “North America” (1-96) . Victor Golla (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
Speaker number: "Up to 10,000."
Considered by this source to be an "emergent language," but sometimes referred to as a dialect of Ojibwe.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
60,000
"Canada Census (2001) lists all Ojibwa varieties together as 30,505 population." Data for the number of native speakers comes from W. Poser (2002). Data for the ethnic population is from SIL (1997).
10,000 (2002 W. Poser). Ethnic population: 60,000 (1997 SIL) (2013 unchanged).
West from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba; into Saskatchewan and Alberta; groups as far west as British Columbia.