ojTechnical information about ISO 639 language code oj
The table below provides technical details for the Ojibwe language, designated by the oj code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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| Standard | |
| 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? |
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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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Ojibwe speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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