Wiktionary:About Ojibwe

A note on spelling

Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin) has no single dialect that is considered the most prestigious or most prominent, and no standard writing system is used to represent all dialects.

However, the vast majority of entries that use Latin alphabets in this wiktionary use the double vowel system. To help readers navigate the different possible spellings, editors using other Latin orthographies are encouraged to include glosses in the double vowel system as part of their entries. A number of entries also use Ojibwe syllabics.

For further reading, consult the Wikipedia page on Ojibwe writing systems.

Alphabetical order

The Ojibwe alphabet is as follows:

a, aa, b, ch, d, e, g, h, ’, i, ii, j, k, m, n, o, oo, p, s, sh, t, w, y, z, zh

Double vowels (aa, ii, oo) represent long vowels and are letters in their own right. They are alphabetized after the corresponding single vowels. The character ’ (modifier letter apostrophe) represents a glottal stop, which is a significant speech sound. The digraphs (ch, sh, zh) are each also treated as a single letter unit.