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extremely so, iirc. both because of the complex agglutinative and polysynthetic grammar, and the dearth of teaching material.

I don't know any of those words :D

The basic jist is that Ojibwe (and many American languages) have very long, complex words that are formed in a much different way to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxARj07jFp0

I see, thanks for the info, lots to read up on!

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