Ottawa

Facts

  • Language: Ottawa
  • Alternate names: Odawa, Odaawaa, Eastern Ojibwa
  • Language code: otw
  • Language family: Algic, Algonquian, Ojibwa-Potawatomi (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~2,000?
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Called Eastern Ojibwa in Bloomfield’s (1957) grammar. In southern Ontario also called Chippewa.

    Commonly referred to as Odawa in Canada and as Ottawa in the US.Ethnologue calls Ottawa a member of the Ojibwa "macro-language."