obviation

[Bryan Gordon]

Actually, that can be a pretty serious issue (speaker preference).
There are some Odaawaa speakers who dislike having their language
called Ojibwe, others who consider Ojibwe a "family" to which Odaawaa
belongs. Most Ojibwe/Chippewa people around these parts (Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Upper Peninsula) consider Odaawaa a different language from
their varieties, but there is great mutual intelligibility. Maybe a
safe, neutral terminology that would satisfy both linguists and
speakers would be something like "Odaawaa Ojibwe". I suppose you'd
have to ask an Odaawaa speaker to find out whether that would solve
the problem. I don't know any in this area.

- Bryan

2007/6/2, Marino <marino at skyway.usask.ca>:
> I think of Odawa as a variety of Ojibwe and I tend to refer every named
> variety in the respective regions to either *Ojibwe* or *Cree* - I am sure
> that this is very inexact from an Algonquianist perspective.  Is there an
> issue here with the speech community?  Do speakers of the varieties of
> Odawa object to having their languages referred to as Ojibwe?
>
> Mary
>
> At 11:05 AM 6/1/2007, you wrote:
> >Odawa, to be exact.
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> > > I need to correct my earlier e-mail:   Nishnaabemwin (Piriyawiboon's paper)
> > > is Ojibwe, not Cree.
> > >
> > > Mary
> > >
>
>