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Algonquin section, old material
(From ALgonqin section of Ojib dialects The Nipissing dialect term omàmìwininì 'downriver people' refers to Algonquin speakers, with the term for the language being omàmìwininìmowin in addition to anicinàbemowin (or orthographic equivalent anishininàbemowin. (?citation for latter, check Cuoq). The general Algonquin self-designation is Anishinàbe.

From Nipissing section

The term odishkwaagamii 'those at the end of the lake'and is also cited for Southwestern Ojibwe; other sources ranging from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries cite the same form for several different Ojibwe dialects, including Ottawa.

The term odishkwaagamii 'those at the end of the lake' (with Odishkwaagamiimowin for the name of the language) is used by speakers of non-Alqonquin dialects of Ojibwe to refer to speakers of Algonquin, and is cited for Southwestern Ojibwe with the meaning 'Algonquin Indian' as well as in the material collected at the eastern end of Lake Superior in the nineteenth century, and other sources for several Ojibwe dialects, ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries including Ottawa.
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It is also attributed to Algonquin speakers as a term for Nipissing dialect speakers


 * The Ojibwe often do describe the Nipissing and Algonquins collectively as Odishkwaagamii ("those at the end of the lake") and their language as Odishkwaagamiimowin.
 * The Ojibwe often do describe the Nipissing and Algonquins collectively as Odishkwaagamii ("those at the end of the lake") and their language as Odishkwaagamiimowin.

However, among the Algonquins, they refer to the Nipissing as Odickwàgamì, while calling themselves Omàmiwinini ("people down-stream") and their language as Omàmiwininìmowin.
 * Nipissing describe their language in English, not as being Ojibwa, but instead as Algonquin.


 * some speakers will use the eastern Ojibwe syllabics, with either the a-finals or i-finals, with the exception of the northern-most communities showing some use of mixed-finals.

However, though the speakers call themselves Anicinàbe ("Anishinaabe") like the Ojibwe, the speakers of this language are not identified as "Ojibwe" and are called Odishkwaagamii (those at the end of the lake) by the Ojibwe. Among the Algonquins, however, the Nipissing are called Otickwàgamì (the Algonquin orthography for the Ojibwe Odishkwaagamii) and their language as Otickwàgamìmowin while the rest of the Algonquin communities call themselves Omàmiwininiwak (down-stream men), and the language as Omàmiwininìmowin (speech of the down-stream men).