Ojibwe, known to its speakers as Anishinaabemowin, is an Indigenous Algonquian language spoken across the northern United States and south-central Canada. The Ojibwe people, who call themselves Anishinaabe, are one of the largest Indigenous groups in North America. There are several distinct varieties of Ojibwe spoken across its vast geographic range, and some linguists consider Ojibwe to be a group of closely related languages rather than a single language because of the differences between its regional varieties.
Today, Ojibwe remains one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in North America, with more than 25,000 speakers in Canada and several thousand more in the United States. The Anishinaabe population numbers well over 200,000 across Canada and the United States, and many communities continue to support language learning and revitalization efforts for future generations. Our Ojibwe course was created by Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia in 2009 and features the variety of Ojibwe spoken in Minnesota and Wisconsin.