Nipissing Ojibwe dialect
The Nipissing dialect of Ojibwe is spoken in the area of
Québec self-identify as Algonquin,[3] the language spoken there is Nipissing. Maniwaki speakers were among those who migrated from Oka, Quebec.[4] Similarly, the nineteenth-century missionary Grammaire de la language algonquine ('Grammar of the Algonquin language') describes Nipissing speech.[5]
The term odishkwaagamii 'those at the end of the lake' is attributed to Algonquin speakers as a term for Nipissing dialect speakers, with related Odishkwaagamiimowin 'Nipissing language',[6] and is also cited for Southwestern Ojibwe with the meaning 'Algonquin Indian';[7] other sources ranging from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries cite the same form from several different Ojibwe dialects, including Ottawa.[8]
Speakers of this dialect generally use a French-based writing system.[3][9]
Nipissing Ojibwe is not included in Ethnologue.[10]
See also
- Nipissing First Nation
- Nipissing 10, Ontario
- Golden Lake
Notes
- ^ Valentine 1994, p. 110.
- ^ Day 1978.
- ^ a b McGregor 1987.
- ^ Valentine 1994.
- ^ Cuoq 1891a.
- ^ Cuoq 1886, p. 314.
- ^ Baraga 1878, p. 314.
- ^ Day 1978, p. 791.
- ^ Cuoq 1886.
- ^ Gordon & Grimes 2005.
References
- Baraga, Frederic (1878). A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English. Part I, English-Otchipwe. Montréal: Beauchemin & Valois.
- Baraga, Frederic (1880). A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English. Part II, Otchipwe-English. Montréal: Beauchemin & Valois.
- Cuoq, Jean André (1886). Lexique de la langue algonquine. Montréal: J. Chapleau.
- Cuoq, Jean André (1891a). "Grammaire de la langue algonquine". Extrait des Mémoires de la Société royale du Canada. 9 (1): 85–114.
- Cuoq, Jean André (1891b). "Grammaire de la langue algonquine". Extrait des Mémoires de la Société royale du Canada. 10 (1): 41–119.
- Day, Gordon (1978). "Nipissing". In Trigger, Bruce (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 786–791. ISBN 0-16-004575-4.
- Day, Gordon; Trigger, Bruce (1978). "Algonquin". In Trigger, Bruce (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 792–797. ISBN 0-16-004575-4.
- Gordon, Raymond G.; Grimes, Barbara F., eds. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- McGregor, Ernest (1987). Algonquin lexicon. Maniwaki, QC: River Desert Education Authority. OCLC 30464077.
- Valentine, J. Randolph (1994). Ojibwe dialect relationships (PhD dissertation). University of Texas, Austin.