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Ojibwa, Northwestern

A language of Canada

ISO 639-3: ojb

Population	20,000 (2000 UBS). Canada Census (2001) lists all Ojibwa varieties together as 30,505 population.
Region	Southern northwest Ontario into Manitoba.
Language maps	Canada, reference number 9 Canada, reference number 9
Alternate names	Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe
Dialects	Berens River Ojibwa (Saulteaux), Lac Seul Ojibwa, Albany River Ojibwa, Lake of the Woods Ojibwa, Rainy River Ojibwa.
Classification	Algic, Algonquian, Central, Ojibwa A member of macrolanguage Ojibwa [oji] (Canada).
Language use	Concerted effort via language teaching in public schools and other efforts to reverse decline.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 50%–75%. Taught in primary schools. Grammar. NT: 1988.
Writing system	Latin script. Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script, no longer in use.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Vernacular Publications

Ojibwe dialogues & riddles, by students of the Native Language Instructors’ Program, Algonquian Language 2233. 1991.

Ojibwe dialogues and riddles. 1991.

Ojibwe syllabics: a handbook for readers and writers of Ojibwe. 1994.