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Language code: oj

Technical information about ISO 639 language code oj

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The table below provides technical details for the Ojibwe language, designated by the oj code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

oj

Name

Official

Ojibwe

Native

ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ

Family
Algonquian
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Southwestern OjibweNorthwestern OjibweEastern OjibweSevern (Northern) OjibweOttawa (Odawa)
Related languages
CreeOji-CreeAlgonquinPotawatomiMenominee
Key facts
Belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algic family and has one of the largest speaker populations among Indigenous North-American languagesHighly polysynthetic, with verbs that can incorporate subjects, objects, tense, mode and direction into a single wordDistinguishes nouns by an animate–inanimate gender system instead of masculine–feminineWritten both in a Latin-based “double-vowel” orthography and in Canadian Aboriginal syllabics invented by missionaries in the 19th centuryUses a rich system of obviation to track multiple third-person participants in discourse.
Sample phrase

Aaniin, aaniish naa ezhi-ayaayan?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Ojibwe belongs to the Algic language family, specifically the Algonquian subgroup. It is an indigenous language of North America, primarily spoken in certain regions of Canada and the United States. It is written using both the Latin script and Ojibwe syllabics. It is estimated that there are approximately 50,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Canada

21K

United States

5K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Ojibwe speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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