Chippewa

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Chippewa
  • Alternate names: SOUTHWESTERN OJIBWA, OJIBWE, OJIBWAY
  • Language code: ciw
  • Language family: Algic, Algonquian-Blackfoot, Algonquian, Eastern Great Lakes Algonquian, Ojibwa-Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Nuclear Ojibwe, Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa
  • Number of speakers: 103826
  • Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
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    Introduction

    Chippewa is an indigenous language of the Algonquian linguistic family. Chippewa is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems.

    The verb

    Sample verb: anokii

    Present

    sg.1  nind-anokii 
    sg.2  gid-anokii 
    sg.3  anokii 
    pl.1 (some)  nind-anokii-min 
    pl.1 (all)  gid-anokii-min 
    pl.2  gid-anokii-m 
    pl.3  anokii-wag