Representative communities in the Nipissing dialect area are Golden Lake, although the language is moribund at that location,[1][2] and Maniwaki, Quebec.
Although speakers of Ojibwe in the community of Kitigan Zibi (also called River Desert) at Maniwaki, Québec self-identify as Algonquin,[3] the language spoken there is Nipissing.
[4] Similarly, the nineteenth-century missionary Grammaire de la language algonquine ('Grammar of the Algonquin language') describes Nipissing speech.
[5] The term odishkwaagamii 'those at the end of the lake' is attributed to Algonquin speakers as a term for Nipissing dialect speakers, with related Odishkwaagamiimowin 'Nipissing language',[6] and is also cited for Southwestern Ojibwe with the meaning 'Algonquin Indian';[7] other sources ranging from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries cite the same form from several different Ojibwe dialects, including Ottawa.
[8] Speakers of this dialect generally use a French-based writing system.