anishinaabemowin

Ojibwe

Etymology

anishinaabemo (“speaks Ojibwe”) ‎ -win

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anɪʃɪnaːpeːmowɪn/, /anɪʃɪnaːbeːmowɪn/

Noun

anishinaabemowin (Canadian syllabics spelling ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ)

1. any First Nations/Native American language
2. the Anishinaabe language (group), which includes Algonquin, Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Saulteaux

Derived terms

Transformations

• unaffected: ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ(anishinaabemowin)
  • unaffected with syncope: ^ᐊᓂᐦ^ᔑᓈᐯ^ᒧᐎ^ᓇ(nishnaabemwin)
• initial change: ᐁᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (enishinaabemowin)
• reduplication: ᐊᐦᔭᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (ayanishinaabemowin)
• initial change reduplication: ᐁᐦᔭᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (eyanishinaabemowin)

Other syllabic forms

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᐎᓐ

Other Roman orthographies

• Algonquin: anicinabemowin
  • Cuoq: anicinapemowin
• Manitoba Saulteaux: anihšināpemowin
  • Ontario Saulteaux: anihshinaapemowin
• Baraga:

See also

• ᐴᑌᐙᑕᒦᒧᐎᓐ (boodewaadamiimowin): the Potawatomi language
• ᓇᐦᑲᐌᒧᐎᓐ (nakawemowin): the Saulteaux language
• ᐅᑖᐙᒧᐎᓐ (odaawaamowin): the Odawa / Ottawa language
• ᐅᑎᔥᒀᑲᒦᒧᐎᓐ (odishkwaagamiimowin): the Algonquin language
• ᐅᒋᐺᒧᐎᓐ (ojibwemowin): the Ojibwe language

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "anishinaabemowin" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.
• Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886
• John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
• Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985
• EOCOD: 309a-4.0, 501a-12.08
• CDMO: 010b-15.0, 200a-03.1, 221b-01.01

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Central, ojc ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Eastern, ojg ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Northwestern, ojb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Severn, ojs ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Western, ojw ⁠