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Ojibwe Language Materials.

 

How to say

Clock Time Expressions
Speaking about Age
Speaking about Colors
Asking 'How Far...?'

Familiar phrases to facilitate conversation in the Indian language, Wikwemikong, 1872. This is a phrasebook in Ojibwe (old Odawa).

Writing system
1. For questioning, affirming, denying, going, coming, &
2. To inquire after health.
3. Of the age.
4. On the hour.
5. For and after breakfast.
6. On the weather.
7. For and at dinner.
8. Concerning the Otchibwe Language.
9. On travelling by Land in the Indian country (in winter).
10. On trevelling by water in the Indian country (in summer).

Ojibwe Drills - from the very beginning.

Odaawa Sentences Examples - Odaawa sentences examples (several hundreds of sentences) from various text collections.
Source: Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar (by Rand Valentine).

Ojbwe Sentences Examples - Ojibwe sentences examples.
Source: Ojibwa Texts (by William Jones).

Naasaab Izhi-anishinaabebii'igeng - Bilingual (Northwestern Ojibwe/English) Pat Ningewance's report about a Conference to find a Common Anishinaabemowin Writing System.

Stories from "Ojibwa Texts" collected by William Jones (1919),

1. Oshkinawe gii-nibod neyaab gaa-izhi-bimaadizid / The Youth who died and came back to Life
4. Odaawaakwe / Ottawa-Woman
5. Mikinaak omitigwapishimonike gaye / Snapping-Turtle and Caddice-Fly
6. Mikinaak nandobani / Snapping-Turtle goes to War
8. Ojiig Esiban gaye / The Fisher and the Marten
10. Bizhiw / The Lynx
12. Majiikiwis / The First-Born Son
14. Majiikiwisag gaa-baaga’adowewaad / The First-Born Sons play Ball
15. Wenjiiwaad animooshag / The Origin of Dogs
18. Animikiig / The Thunderers
40. Onaman / Magic Paint

 

 

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