Berens River Ojibwe is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken along the Berens River in northern Ontario and Manitoba. Berens communities include Pikangikum and Poplar Hill, both in Ontario,Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994, pp. 31, 417-422 well as Little Grand Rapids, in Manitoba.Fiero, Charles, 1973 Berens is strongly distinguished from the Severn Ojibwe dialect spoken in communities directly to the north.
Berens River Ojibwe is most commonly written using the Cree syllabary widely used to write Ojibwe in northern Ontario.Nichols, John, 1996
Berens River Ojibwe is not included in Ethnologue.Gordon, Raymond G., 2005
See also Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba Pikangikum First Nation Poplar Hill First Nation
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References
Gordon Jr., Raymond G., ed., 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th edition. Ethnologue: Languages of the World Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Nichols, John. 1996. "The Cree syllabary." Peter Daniels and William Bright, eds. The world's writing systems, 599-611. New York: Oxford University Press. Fiero, Charles, with Norman Quill. 1973. Ojibwe Assimilation. Red Lake, ON: Northern Light Gospel Messions. Valentine, J. Randolph. 1994. Ojibwe dialect relationships. PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.
Further reading Quill, Norman. 1965. Ed. Charles Fiero. The moons of winter and other stories. Red Lake, ON: Northern Light Gospel Mission. Quill, Norman. 1990. Ed. Charles Fiero. The moons of winter and other stories. [syllabic edition] Readers and Study Guides. Winnipeg, MB: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.