Maps of Ojibwayan

Athapaskan and Algic: Athapaskan and Algonquin Languages in Canada and Alaska (PROEL)



Athapaskan and Algonquin Languages in Canada and Alaska

Source:   Promotora Española de Lingüística (Proel). 2008. Rama Algonquina. Lenguas del Mundo.
Date Digitized:   2008

Map Description:
Este mapa de la Promotora Española de Lingüística (Proel) ilustra la distribución de dos grupos indios grandes en Norteamérica, los indios atabascanos y los indios algonquinos. Según PROEL, las idiomas vistas aquí diferencian dramáticamente en su número de hablantes; algo de más en peligro (por ejemplo, el Ingalik) tiene menos de 100 mientras que otros tienen millares (el Ojibwa).

This map by the Promotora Española de Lingüística (Proel) shows the distribution of two large Native American language groups in North America, the Athapaskan and the Algonquin groups. According to PROEL, the languages represented range dramatically in their number of speakers; some of the most endangered (such as Ingalik) have fewer than 100 while others have thousands (Ojibwa).




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Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication (Bakker)



Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication

Source:   Bakker, Peter and Robert A Papen. 1996. Canada and Alaska: Languages and Intercommunication, in Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, Peter Mühlhäusler, and Darrell Trevor Tryon (Ed) Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. I, Maps. Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Date Digitized:   2010
Map Description:
Illustrated here are a series of boundaries of native American language groups in Canada and Alaska. The arrows indicate directions of communication and cultural or language influence as hypothesized by Bakker and Papen (1996).


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North America: Language Groups of Canada and Alaska (PROEL)


Language groups of Alaska and Canada

Source:   The PROEL map of Alaska and Canada
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Downloaded:   01/01/2010

Map Description:
This map focuses on contact languages, and gives only language family information for the Algonquian and Athabascan languages.
More information on the individual languages can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.




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Ojibwe (Public Content)



Ojibwe Language

Source:   Wikimedia Commons. Ojibwe Language Map
Primary Data Source:   Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
Date Downloaded:   25-Jan-2006

Map Description:
A map of the Ojibwe language in North America at the time of contact.

Other related resources:
  • Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
  • Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-1604-8774-9.
  • Goddard, Ives. (1999). Native languages and language families of North America (rev. and enlarged ed. with additions and corrections). [Map]. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (Smithsonian Institute). (Updated version of the map in Goddard 1996). ISBN 0-8032-9271-6.
  • Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).


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