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Where is Ottawa spoken?

Ottawa 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 Ottawa is spoken

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

Country
Canada
United States

Ottawa 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 Ottawa?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Moribund. Glottolog lists it as moribund: the youngest speakers are middle-aged or older, and children are no longer learning it.

Where Ottawa sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Ottawa 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. Ottawa

More about Ottawa

Codes: ISO 639-3 otw, Glottolog otta1242. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Ottawa

Where is Ottawa spoken?

Ottawa 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 Ottawa in?

Glottolog places Ottawa in the Algic family, in the branch Algonquian-Blackfoot, Algonquian, Eastern Great Lakes Algonquian, Ojibwa-Potawatomi and Ojibwa.

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