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| Name | Ojibwe language |
| Nativename | Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ |
| Pronunciation | -alganɪʃɪnaːpeːmowɪn |
| States | Canada,
United States |
| Region | Canada: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, groups in Alberta, British Columbia; United States: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, groups in North Dakota, Montana |
| Speakers | 56,531 (47,740 in Canada; 8,791 in the United States) |
| Ethnicity | Ojibwe people |
| Familycolor | Algic |
| Fam1 | Algic |
| Fam2 | Algonquian |
| Fam3 | Central Algonquian |
| Script | Latin alphabet, various orthographies in Canada and the United States; Ojibwe syllabics in Canada; Great Lakes Algonquian syllabary in the United States |
| Iso1 | oj |
| Iso2 | oji |
| Iso3 | oji |
| Lc1 | ojs|ld1=Severn Ojibwa|ll1=Anishinini language |
| Lc2 | ojg|ld2=Eastern Ojibwa|ll2=Eastern Ojibwa language |
| Lc3 | ojc|ld3=Central Ojibwa|ll3=Central Ojibwa language |
| Lc4 | ojb|ld4=Northwestern Ojibwa|ll4=Northwestern Ojibwa language |
| Lc5 | ojw|ld5=Western Ojibwa|ll5=Western Ojibwa language |
| Lc6 | ciw|ld6=Chippewa|ll6=Chippewa language |
| Lc7 | otw|ld7=Ottawa|ll7=Ottawa language |
| Lc8 | alq|ld8=Algonquin|ll8=Algonquin language |
| Lingua | 62-ADA-d (Ojibwa+Anissinapek) |
| Notice | IPA |
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noticeOjibwe (or Ojibwa, Ojibway, or Chippewa), also called Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of the Algonquian language family. Ojibwe is characterized by a series of dialects that have local names and frequently local (non-indigenous) writing systems. There is no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system that covers all dialects. The relative autonomy of the regional dialects of Ojibwe is associated with an absence of linguistic or political unity among Ojibwe-speaking groups.
The dialects of Ojibwe are spoken in Canada from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan, with outlying communities in Alberta, and in the United States from Michigan through Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a number of communities in North Dakota and Montana, as well as migrant groups in Kansas and Oklahoma.
The aggregated dialects of Ojibwe comprise the second most commonly spoken First Nations language in Canada (after Cree), and the fourth most widely spoken in the United States or Canada behind Navajo, Inuit and Cree .
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