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    Ottawa or Odawa is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken by the Odawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States...
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    the classification of its dialects, at least the following are recognized, from east to west: Algonquin, Eastern Ojibwe, Ottawa (Odawa), Western Ojibwe...
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    Odawa (redirect from Ottawa tribe)
    Michigan and Oklahoma (former Indian Territory, United States). The Ottawa dialect is part of the Algonquian language family. This large family is made...
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  • Algonquin Park. The Atlas of North American English identifies an Ottawa Valley traditional dialect enclave in Arnprior, which lacks the Canadian raising of /aʊ/...
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  • Government of Canada Odawa or Ottawa, a First Nation/Native American ethnic group Ottawa dialect, their language Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, a federally...
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  • declines between some non-adjacent dialects. Mutual intelligibility between some non-adjacent dialects, notably Ottawa, Severn Ojibwe, and Algonquin, is...
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  • the Great Lakes script has also been attributed to speakers of the Ottawa dialect of the Ojibwe language, but supporting evidence is weak. Consonant and...
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  • phonological parameters. For example, the Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe dialects have changed relative to other dialects by adding a process of vowel syncope that...
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    dialect of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), but use of this language has declined. This area around the Manistee River was long occupied by bands of Ottawa...
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  • he taught a field methods class with Andrew Medler, a speaker of the Ottawa dialect who was born in Saginaw, Michigan, but spent most of his life on Walpole...
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    Ojibwe word ᐊᒋᑕᒨ ajidamoo (or possibly ajidamoonh, the same word in the Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe), which translates literally as "one who descends trees headlong...
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    Ojibwe writing systems (category Articles containing Ottawa-language text)
    differences is used for several publications in the Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe dialects (see below Ottawa-Eastern Ojibwe double vowel system). One of the goals...
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    The Ottawa Valley is the valley of the Ottawa River, along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. The valley is the transition...
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  • Heiltsuk /ˈheɪltsək/, Híɫzaqv, also known as Bella Bella and Haihais, is a dialect of the North Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language Heiltsuk-Oowekyala that is...
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    Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. Other bands with federal status include the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma...
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  • Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties...
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    Potawatomi (category Articles containing Ottawa-language text)
    considerable amount of vocabulary from Sauk. Like the Odawa language, or the Ottawa dialect of the Anishinaabe language, the Potawatomi language exhibits a great...
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  • Toronto slang (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
    Multicultural Toronto English (MTE) is a multi-ethnic dialect of Canadian English used in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), particularly among young non-white...
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  • A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...
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  • described as "…a language with a restricted vocabulary drawn from the Ottawa dialect of Ojibwe with a few words from the Fox language, another Algonquian...
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    The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe: Gichi-wiikwedong Odaawaag miina ojibweg) is a federally recognized Native American tribe...
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  • a dialect with an army and navy", sometimes called the Weinreich witticism, is a quip about the arbitrariness of the distinction between a dialect and...
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    Macatawa River (category Rivers of Ottawa County, Michigan)
    approximated to be the word “mak-a-tew-gamie”, meaning “black water” in the Ottawa dialect. Because they spoke oral languages, the name was written by the European...
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  • Potawatomi language (category Articles containing Ottawa-language text)
    still exhibit strong correspondences, especially with the Odaawaa (Ottawa) dialect. Cecelia Miksekwe Jackson, one of the last surviving native speakers...
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    The Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma is one of four federally recognized Native American tribes of Odawa people in the United States. Its Algonquian-speaking ancestors...
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  • Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, member since 1988 Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Match-e-be-nash-she-wish...
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  • armourer) and another named only as Saint-Jean. It's likely that both spoke Ottawa dialect rather than Marie's Cree language. Marie claimed that she had meant...
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    the local dialect as something separate from other forms of Inuktitut. In the Nunavik dialect, Inuktitut is called ` (ᐃᓄᑦᑎᑐᑦ). This dialect is also sometimes...
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    Illinois (category Articles containing Ottawa-language text)
    regular way'. This was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe· (pluralized as ilinwe·k). The French borrowed...
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  • Severely Endangered Also called Odawa The number of people who speak the Ottawa dialect is unknown, though it is predicted to be around 13,000. Native communities...
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