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Western Ojibwa (also known as ''Nakawēmowin'', ''Saulteaux'', and ''Plains Ojibwa'') is a dialect of the Ojibwe language, a member of the Algonquian language family. It is spoken by the Saulteaux, a sub-Nation of the Ojibwe people, in southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan, Canada, westward from Lake Winnipeg.〔Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.〕 ''Saulteaux'' is the generally used term by its speakers while ''Nakawēmowin'' is the general term in the language itself.〔Cote, Margaret and Terry Klokeid, 1985, 2〕 Some speakers of Saulteaux inconsistently merge and as , possibly under the influence of Plains Cree.〔Valentine, J. Randolph, 1994〕 == Classification == Genetically, Ojibwa is part of the Algonquian language family. This language family includes languages like Mi'kmaq, Abenaki, Malecite, Potawatomi, Delaware, Montagnais-Naskapi, Cree, and Blackfoot in Canada. In the U.S., are languages such as Menomini, Fox, Shawnee and Cheyenne. Yurok and Wiyot, also known as the Ritwan languages in old literature, that were once spoken in California are also relatives with Algonquian language family. Despite the geographic distance, these two languages make part of the Algic language family with the Algonquian languages. Randolph Valentine (1994) divides Ojibwa into two major dialect groups: a southern group and a northern group. The southern dialect group includes Saulteaux in southern Manitoba and southern Sasketchewan; Ojibwa in most of Ontario, Manitoulin Island and Georgian Bay; Ottawa or Odawa in southern Ontario; and finally Chippewa in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The northern dialect group includes Oji-Cree in northern Ontario and Algonquin in Western Quebec.〔〔Logan, Harold J.. 2001. ''A Collection of Saulteaux Texts with Translations and Linguistic Analyses.'' MA Thesis, University of Regina.〕 Leonard Bloomfield (1946) was able to reconstruct the phonology system and some of the morphology of Proto-Algonquian through the comparison of cognates from four languages: Fox, Cree, Menomini, and Ojibwa.〔〔Bloomfield, Leonard. 1946. "Algonquian." Harry Hoijer et al., eds., ''Linguistic structures of native America,'' 85-129. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 6. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation.〕 Fig. 0.1 Proto-Algonquian Reconstructions made by Bloomfield (1946) Fig. 0.2 Comparison of Central Ojibwa (Odawa), Western Ojibwa (Saulteaux), and Swampy Cree (2002) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Ojibwa language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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