Central Ojibwa language

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.[3]

Central Ojibwa
Native toCanada
RegionOntario
Native speakers
8,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ojc
Glottologcent2136[2]

Phonology

Vowels

VowelsNasal Vowels
ʌ
ãː
ẽː
I
ĩː
ʊ ~ o
oː ~ uːõː

Diphthongs

Diphthongs
aw
aj
ew
ej
iw
ij
ow

Consonants

Consonants
b ~ p
tʃː
d ~ t
g ~ k
h
dʒ ~ tʃ
k^h ~ kː^h
m
n
p^h ~ pː^h
ʃː
t^h ~ tː^h
w
j
z ~ s
ʒ ~ ʃ
ʔ

[4]

gollark: Ah, yes.
gollark: I would add this to the potatOS strings module, except it'd then break the potatobin support.
gollark: ```lualocal stringlib = mt.__indexfunction mt.__index(str, ix) if stringlib[ix] then return stringlib[ix] end return string.sub(str, ix, ix) end```
gollark: I have a good idea which is not stupid. Give strings index-by-character.
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See also

Notes

  1. Central Ojibwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Ojibwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. "Ojibwe Pronunciation and Spelling Guide (Chippewa, Ojibway, Ojibwa)". nativelanguages.org. Retrieved 15 December 2018.


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