Algic family

Ojibwe

1500 CE – today Living

Ojibwe (1500 CE – today) is a living Algic language. Lineage: Proto-Algic → Proto-Algonquian → Ojibwe.

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Speakers
50K (50,000)
ISO 639-3
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Glottocode
ojib1241

Anishinaabemowin dialect continuum around the Great Lakes. Closely related to Potawatomi.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Algicc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Algonquianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Ojibwe1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Algonquian.

Sources