Nishnaabemwin

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Anishinaabemowin: The macrolanguage spoken by the Nishnaabe (Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Alternative form of Anishinaabemowin: The macrolanguage spoken by the Nishnaabe (Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi).; 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. specifically

    "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."

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anishinaabe

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Eastern Ojibwa and Ottawa Nishnaabemwin.

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