Chippewa
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- Language: Chippewa
- Alternate names: SOUTHWESTERN OJIBWA, OJIBWE, OJIBWAY
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:ciw
- Language family: Algic, Algonquian, Central, Ojibwa
- Number of speakers: 103,826
- Script: -
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Introduction
Chippewa is an indigenous language of the Algonquian linguistic family. Chippewa is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems.
The verb
Sample verb: anokii
Present
| sg.1 | nind-anokii |
| sg.2 | gid-anokii |
| sg.3 | anokii |
| pl.1 (some) | nind-anokii-min |
| pl.1 (all) | gid-anokii-min |
| pl.2 | gid-anokii-m |
| pl.3 | anokii-wag |