Ojibwa, Severn

OJS

threatened

Alternate Names: Cree, Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe, Ojicree, Oji-Cree

Dialects: Severn River Ojibwa, Winisk River Ojibwa. A member of macrolanguage Ojibwa ,.

Genealogy:

Algic
Algonquian
Ojibwa-Potawatomi

Demographics: 10,500 (2001 census).

Language Use: Older adults.

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

Writing System: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Nation of Origin: Canada