Ojibwa, Northwestern

OJB

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Alternate Names: Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe

Dialects: Albany River Ojibwa, Berens River Ojibwa (Saulteaux), Lac Seul Ojibwa, Lake of the Woods Ojibwa, Rainy River Ojibwa. A member of macrolanguage Ojibwa ,.

Genealogy:

Algic
Algonquian
Ojibwa-Potawatomi

Demographics: 20,000 (2000 UBS).

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 50%–75%. Concerted effort via language teaching in public schools and other efforts to reverse decline. Taught in primary schools. Grammar. NT: 1988.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Canada