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Name: Eastern Ojibwe Type: Language Alternate Names: Eastern Ojibwa; Ojibwa (Eastern); Ojibwa, Eastern; Ojibwe; Ojibway; Ojibwa; Ojibwa-Algonquin-Ottawa Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 25,900 (1998 Statistics Canada). Canada Census (2001) lists all Ojibwa varieties together as 30,505 population (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 620 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 25885 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ojg Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Southern Ojibwe; Souther Ojibwa (txdp) Brief Description: "Eastern Ojibwe is an Algonquian language spoken in southern Ontario and Quebec in two major dialect clusters. The more westerly variety, historically called Mississauga in Canada, is spoken east of Georgian Bay, where the largest numbers of speakers are today on Parry Island and at Curve Lake, near Peterborough. It was formerly spoken in many other places both in Ontario west of Georgian Bay and in southern Michigan (where it was called Chippewa), areas in which it was generally replaced by Ottawa through language shift in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Michigan varieties were not sharply demarcated from Central Southern Ojibwe. The more easterly variety of Eastern Ojibwa is the dialect called Algonquin at Golden Lake, Ontario, and Maniwaki, Quebec. This was historically the Nipissing dialect from north of Lake Huron, which emerged as the dominant form of speech at Oka and other missions near Montreal. This Southern Algonquin dialect must be distinguished from Northern Algonquin, which is very different." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14 "Southern Algonquin (Nipissing) is an emergent language within the Ojibwayan dialect complex, primarily spoken at the River Desert Reserve, on the Gatineau River at Maniwaki, Quebec. Although speakers identify themselves and their language as Algonquin, Southern Algonquin is distinctly different from Northern Algonquin, as well as from the (extinct) Old Algonquin that was spoken in the Ottawa Valley in the seventeenth century. Dialectally Southern Algonquin is the eastern component of Eastern Ojibwe." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages pg. 23

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed