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Name: Saulteaux Type: Language Alternate Names: Ojibwa; Ojibway; Ojibwe; Chippeway; Ojibwa, Northwestern; Northwestern Ojibwa; Salteaux; Ojibwa-Algonquin-Ottawa Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 20,000 (2000 UBS). Canada Census (2001) lists all Ojibwa varieties together as 30,505 population (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 3465 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 20000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ojb Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Southern Ojibwe; Souther Ojibwa (txdp) Child Dialect: Southwestern Ojibwa; Ojibwe (Minnesota); Ojibwa; Ojibway; Ojibwe; Chippeway; Chippewa; Chipewa; Chipeway (ciw) Brief Description: "Saulteaux (pronounced 'So-toe') is an emergent language of the Ojibwayan dialect complex, closely related to Central Southern Ojibwe. The name 'Saulteaux' refers to the historical origin of the group at Sault Ste. Marie and around Lake Superior; they moved westward onto the prairies with the expansion of the fur trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Today, 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. The Saulteaux spoken north and east of Lake Winnipeg, and into Northern Ontario, shows considerable influence from Severn Ojibwe, including use of the syllabic orthography. These varieties are sometimes called Northern Ojibwe. Most Saulteaux varieties have a number of borrowings from Cree and other features that show Cree influence. Up to 10,000 people may be speakers of Saulteaux." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed