Ojibwe language
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Ojibwe (/oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ oh-JIB-way, also known as Ojibwa /oʊˈdʒɪbwə/ oh-JIB-wə, Ojibway, Otchipwe, Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin), is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. The language is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system that covers all dialects.
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- Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the language I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions. 16 September 2013. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-57131-871-8.
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