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What is Ojibwe and where is it spoken?

Ojibwe (also Ojibwa, Ojibway, Anishinaabemowin) is an Algonquian language continuum spoken across the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. Major dialect groups include Western Ojibwe, Southwestern (Chippewa), Northwestern, Severn, Algonquin and Oji-Cree. Around 50,000 people speak it, with the largest concentrations in Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota.

How is Ojibwe written?

Ojibwe uses two main writing systems. The Double Vowel orthography, devised by Charles Fiero in the 1950s, uses Latin letters with doubled vowels for long sounds (e.g. aa, ii, oo) and is widespread in language teaching. The other system, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, is used in many First Nations communities especially in the Severn and Oji-Cree dialect areas, with shapes adapted from those used for Cree.