Nishnaabemwin

English Etymology en ojg - and en otw Nishnaabemwin. Proper noun en Anishinaabemowin: The macrolanguage spoken by the Nishnaabe Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi. en specifically The variants of Nishnaabemwin that use this form of the word (which are spoken with vowel syncope), spoken in southern Ontario, around Lake Huron, primarily Odawa, Eastern Ojibwe and Nipissing. en Zoe Tennant Jenny Kay Dupuis wanted her book to be available in the language her grandmother was punished for speaking w:CBC Radio 2019-02-01 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/the-rise-in-indigenous-storytelling-for-kids-1.4998000/jenny-kay-dupuis-wanted-her-book-to-be-available-in-the-language-her-grandmother-was-punished-for-speaking-1.4998022 When Nipissing author Jenny Kay Dupuis co-wrote I Am Not a Number, she knew that she wanted to have it translated into the Nbising dialect of Nishnaabemwin, the language that her grandmother was forbidden to speak at residential school. https://web.archive.org/web/20250225044918/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/the-rise-in-indigenous-storytelling-for-kids-1.4998000/jenny-kay-dupuis-wanted-her-book-to-be-available-in-the-language-her-grandmother-was-punished-for-speaking-1.4998022 en Kate Allen ‘I am Janet.’ One transgender woman’s journey and her pioneering surgery w:Toronto Star 2019-11-15 On a Tuesday in April 2017, Janet Macbeth composed an all-office email. “My story,” read the subject line in Nishnaabemwin, the Ojibwe language. “Hello everyone,” the email continued in Nishnaabemwin. “My name is Janet.” https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/i-am-janet-one-transgender-woman-s-journey-and-her-pioneering-surgery/article_1726c3f2-c447-5cca-9011-181fce996fc3.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240717213952/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/i-am-janet-one-transgender-woman-s-journey-and-her-pioneering-surgery/article_1726c3f2-c447-5cca-9011-181fce996fc3.html en Ka’nhehsí:io Deer Celebrating Indigenous women who are reclaiming and revitalizating their languages w:CBC News 2020-03-08 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/women-indigenous-languages-1.5488482 Mary Ann Naokwegijig-Corbiere, originally from Wikwemikong First Nation, is an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Sudbury and has been teaching Nishnaabemwin for the last three decades. She is one of two editors of the Nishnaabemwin: Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe Dictionary. She's been adding new words to the dictionary since 1997, after consulting with five communities in southern Ontario. https://web.archive.org/web/20200316002956/https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/women-indigenous-languages-1.5488482 Translations Nishnaabe language Anishinaabemowin Ottawa Etymology From otw Nishnaabemo -win. Proper noun otw proper noun in Ojibwe/Ottawa language References 507