Berens River Ojibwe dialect explained

See main article: Ojibwe dialects.

Berens River Ojibwe is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken along the Berens River in northern Ontario and Manitoba. Berens communities include Pikangikum and Poplar Hill, both in Ontario,^[1] well as Little Grand Rapids, in Manitoba.^[2] Berens is strongly distinguished from the Severn Ojibwe dialect spoken in communities directly to the north.

Berens River Ojibwe is most commonly written using the Cree syllabary widely used to write Ojibwe in northern Ontario.^[3]

Berens River Ojibwe is not included in Ethnologue.^[4]

See also

• Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba
• Pikangikum First Nation
• Poplar Hill First Nation

References

• Gordon Jr., Raymond G., ed., 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue: Languages of the World Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
• Nichols, John. 1996. "The Cree syllabary." Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. The world's writing systems, 599-611. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fiero, Charles, with Norman Quill. 1973. Ojibwe Assimilation. Red Lake, ON: Northern Light Gospel Messions.
• Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. Ojibwe dialect relationships. PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.

Further reading

• Quill, Norman. 1965. Ed. Charles Fiero. The moons of winter and other stories. Red Lake, ON: Northern Light Gospel Mission.
• Quill, Norman. 1990. Ed. Charles Fiero. The moons of winter and other stories. [syllabic edition] Readers and Study Guides. Winnipeg, MB: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.

Notes and References

1. Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994, pp. 31, 417-422
2. Fiero, Charles, 1973
3. Nichols, John, 1996
4. Gordon, Raymond G., 2005