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Where is Chippewa spoken?

Chippewa (ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ) is an Algic language, spoken in Canada and the United States. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Chippewa is spoken

Chippewa is spoken in 2 countries: Canada and the United States.

Country
Canada
United States

Chippewa has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Chippewa?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Chippewa sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Chippewa as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Algic
  2. Algonquian-Blackfoot
  3. Algonquian
  4. Eastern Great Lakes Algonquian
  5. Ojibwa-Potawatomi
  6. Ojibwa
  7. Nuclear Ojibwe
  8. Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa
  9. Chippewa

Related languages

Other languages in the Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa group:

More about Chippewa

Codes: ISO 639-3 ciw, Glottolog chip1241. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Chippewa

Where is Chippewa spoken?

Chippewa is spoken in Canada and the United States. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Chippewa in?

Glottolog places Chippewa in the Algic family, in the branch Algonquian-Blackfoot, Algonquian, Eastern Great Lakes Algonquian, Ojibwa-Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Nuclear Ojibwe and Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa.

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