Northwestern Ojibwa

Northwestern Ojibwa is an Algic language spoken in Canada. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Northwestern Ojibwe (also known as Northern Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language, spoken in Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. Ojibwe is a member of the Algonquian language family.

From Wikipedia · Northwestern Ojibwa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

ᑭᑲᓇᐌᓀᓐ ᑲᐱᒪᑎᓯᐗᑦ ᓂᑕᐎᑭᐗᒃ ᑎᐯᓂᒥᑎᓱᐎᓂᒃ ᒥᓇ ᑕᐱᑕ ᑭᒋᐃᓀᑕᑯᓯᐎᓐ ᑲᔦ ᑌᐸᑫᑕᑯᓯᐎᓐ. ᐅᑕᔦᓇᐗ ᒥᑲᐎᐎᓐ ᑲᔦ ᓂᑄᑲᐎᓐ ᒥᓇᐗ ᑕᔥ ᒋᐃᔑᑲᓇᐗᐸᑎᐗᐸᓐ ᐊᒐᑯ ᒥᓄᐎᒋᐎᑎᐎᓂᒃ.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Northwestern Ojibwa

Meaning	Word	Romanization
name	Zinkazo*
eye	SkiZigw*
ear	tawag*
nose	jan*
tooth	wibid*
tongue	denniw*
hand	ninj*
blood	mskwi*
bone	kan*
skin	Zaghay*
knee	gidig*
breast	dodoS*
liver	kon*
water	nbi*
fire	hawn*
sun	gizis*
star	nang*
stone	sin*
mountain	aZbik*
tree	mtig*
leaf	bagw*
night	dbik*
dog	nimoS*
fish	gigo*
louse	kojins*
one	beZig*
two	niZ*
I	ni*
you	gi*
we	ginwi*