TheNipissing dialect of Ojibwe is spoken in the area ofLake Nipissing inOntario. Representative communities in the Nipissing dialect area areGolden Lake, although the language is moribund at that location,[1][2] andManiwaki,Quebec. Although speakers of Ojibwe in the community ofKitigan Zibi (also calledRiver Desert) atManiwaki,Québec self-identify asAlgonquin,[3] the language spoken there is Nipissing. Maniwaki speakers were among those who migrated fromOka, Quebec.[4] Similarly, the nineteenth-century missionaryGrammaire de la language algonquine ('Grammar of the Algonquin language') describes Nipissing speech.[5]
The termodishkwaagamii 'those at the end of the lake' is attributed to Algonquin speakers as a term for Nipissing dialect speakers, with relatedOdishkwaagamiimowin 'Nipissing language',[6] and is also cited forSouthwestern Ojibwe with the meaning 'Algonquin Indian';[7] other sources ranging from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries cite the same form from several different Ojibwe dialects, including Ottawa.[8]
Day, Gordon (1978). "Nipissing". In Trigger, Bruce (ed.).Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 786–791.ISBN0-16-004575-4.
Day, Gordon; Trigger, Bruce (1978). "Algonquin". In Trigger, Bruce (ed.).Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 792–797.ISBN0-16-004575-4.
