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Ojibwe

Language: Minesota Ojibwe
Title: Agaasaa Ogimaa
Transliteration: Mii dash omaa ayaam ningiimojigigendam Bezhugo gichi-wendan-giimojigigendam Bemaadizid eta onji ode' weweni bagakaabim Wegodogwen igo nadawendaagwan gaawiin gishkiinzhigoon onji bagakaabisiim.

Region: The language is spoken by Ojibwe people in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario. The following is quoted from a mail of Mary Roffers.

The Ojibwe language consists of a collection of dialects spoken across a vast area of Canada and the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is part of the Algonquian language family. The language is called Anishinaabe Anishinini or Ojibwe by those who speak it. Linguists call the language group as a whole 'Ojibwe'. The dialect that I translated the saying into is known as Minnesota Ojibwe. It is the most standardized dialect of the language, with a written orthography and dictionary. The language was completely oral until about 150 years ago. It is spoken by an indigenous group from North America. Presently there are approximately 150-160,000 ethnic Ojibwe in the United States and Canada. According to the Summer Institute there are 25,885 Ojibwe in Canada who claim Ojibwe as their native language with 13,440 using it in the home. In the United States, the language is no longer spoken at home by Ojibwe, but many Ojibwe study the language as part of there cultural identity. It is considered one of five native North American languages that will most likely survive into the 22nd century. The book has not been translated, as yet, into Ojibwe. If it were, I suppose, it might be called 'Agaasaa Ogimaa', or 'Little Chief'. The concept of prince is entirely foreign to the Ojibwe.


Translator: Mary Roffers, Larry Beardy
Publisher: As of 13-Jun-2003 no complete translation is known.
Year: MISSING
ISBN: MISSING

Thanks goes to:
Mary Roffers


September 1, 2009

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