Central Ojibwa language

{{Short description|Algonquian language spoken in Ontario}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Central Ojibwa

|states=Canada

|region=Ontario

|speakers=8,000

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Algic

|fam1=Algic

|fam2=Algonquian

|fam3=Ojibwe–Potawatomi

|fam4=Ojibwe

|fam5=Nuclear Ojibwe{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cent2252 |title=Central-Eastern-Southwestern Ojibwa |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Glottolog |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221030034539/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cent2252 |archive-date=2022-10-30 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}

|fam6=Central–Eastern–Southwestern Ojibwe

|fam7=Central–Southwestern Ojibwe?Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. "Subarctic Algonquian languages." June Helm, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic, pp. 52–66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution. {{ISBN|0-16-004578-9}}

|iso3=ojc

|glotto=cent2136

|glottorefname=Central Ojibwa

|map=Lang Status 60-DE.svg

|mapcaption={{center|{{small|Central Ojibwe is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Central Ojibwa (also known as Central Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwe) is an Algonquian language spoken in Ontario, Canada from Lake Nipigon in the west to Lake Nipissing in the east.Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.