Berens River Ojibwe dialect

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.

Main article: Ojibwe dialects

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

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

References
  • Gordon Jr., Raymond G., ed., 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue: Languages of the World Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6
  • Nichols, John. 1996. "The Cree syllabary." Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. The world's writing systems, 599-611. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0
  • 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. ISSN 0711-382X


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