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."