Ojibway language
- noun
- /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- US
- Efforts are being made to revitalize the Ojibway language among younger generations.
Examples
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Many traditional stories are still told in the Ojibway language.
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Many children learn the Ojibway language in school.
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She studied the Ojibway language as part of her research on indigenous cultures.
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The Ojibway language is rich in history.
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Efforts are being made to revitalize the Ojibway language among younger generations.
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Many traditional stories are still told in the Ojibway language.
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She studied the Ojibway language as part of her research on indigenous cultures.
Synonyms
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A Native language spoken around Lake Superior by Ojibwe people
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A Native American people of the Great Lakes region who speak their own language
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A Native American language spoken around Lake Superior in Canada and the northern United States
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A language spoken by the Ojibwa people in parts of Canada and the northern United States
A language spoken by the Ojibwa people in North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
Ojibway + language
This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase: a known ethnonym/proper name ('Ojibway') plus 'language' yields 'the language spoken by the Ojibway people.' The pattern (X language = the language of X) is cross-linguistically common and immediately comprehensible to learners who know the constituent words.
Etymology
Ojibway language gets its name from the people called Ojibway. One popular story says Ojibway may come from a word about working animal skins—imagine hands scraping and shaping a hide—and that clear picture became the name for the group. So, Ojibway language means 'the language of the Ojibway people'.