Double Vowel Roman treats digraphs as a distinct sound element, and thus would parse them accordingly. The resulting alphabetical order for the Fiero Double Vowel Roman is:

a aa b ch d e g ' h i ii j k m n (nh) ny o oo p s sh t w y z zh

The Rhodes Double Vowel system, a minor variation of the Fiero Double Vowel system, is popular in Michigan and Southeastern Ontario, often characterized by loss of short vowels due to the syncopated accenting of the words. In this system, glottal stop is transcribed as . Since vowel syncope occurs frequently with the Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe dialects, which employ this system, additional consonant clusters are allowed. As a result of syncope, this system uses <'> to represent a vowel lost during syncope which otherwise may create a confusing consonant clustering, such as to distinguish from . Also, a sub-positional dot under and a super-positional dot over are used to represent and lost during syncope but where some speakers still colour their consonants with a very slight /ɰ/. Unlike the Fiero Double Vowel system, the Rhodes Double Vowel system do not make parsing considerations for the digraphs. Consequently, the alphabetical order is:

' a b c d e g (ġ) h i j k (k̩) m n o p s t w y z

The Saulteaux-Cree Roman system is based on the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. This system is found in northern Ontario, southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan. Compared to the Fiero or Rhodes Double Vowel systems, long vowels, including , are shown with either macron or circumflex diacritic marks, depending on the community's standards. Though syncope is not a common feature with Saulteaux, the occasional vowel loss is indicated with a <'>. Nasaled vowels are generally not marked. The resulting alphabetical order is:

' a â c ê h i î k m n o ô p s š t w y

The Hybrid system is found in northern Ontario. Generally, this system use the same consonant scheme as the Saulteaux-Cree Roman system, but without the use of diacritics. This results in the use of instead of <š> and the use of double vowels to represent long vowels.

Unlike the other Roman systems modeled after English, the Algonquin Roman system is instead modeled after French. Its most striking features are the use of either circumflex or grave diacritic mark over the long vowels, /ʧ/ and /ʤ/ written as and , and /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ are written as and .

Folk spelling of Anishinaabemowin is not a system, per se, as it varies from person to person writing speech into script. Each writer employing folk spelling would write out the word as how the speaker himself would form the words. Depending on if the reference sound representation is based on English or French, a word may be represented using common reference language sound representation, thus better able to reflect the vowel or consonant value. However, since this requires the knowledge of how the speaker himself speaks, folk spelling quickly becomes difficult to read for those individuals not familiar with the writer.

James Evans, a missionary from Kingston upon Hull, UK, had prepared the Speller and Interpreter in English and Indian [1] in 1837, but was unable to get its printing sanctioned by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Evans continued to use his Ojibwe writing system in his work in Ontario. However, his students appear to have had conceptual difficulties working with the same alphabet for two different languages with very different sounds. Furthermore, the structure of the Ojibwe language made most words quite long when spelled with Roman letters, and Evans himself found this approach awkward. His book also noted differences in the Ojibwe dialectual field. The "default" dialect was the Ojibwemowin spoken at Rice Lake, Ontario (marked as "RL"). The other two were Credit, Ontario, (marked as "C") and areas to the west (marked as "W").

Evans' Ojibwe writing system recognized short and long vowels, but did not distinguish between lenis and fortis consonants. Another distinct character of Evans system was the use of and to serve both as a consonant and vowel. As vowels, they served as /i/ and /o/ while as consonants, they served as /j/ and /ɰ/. The system distinguished long vowels from short vowels by doubling the short vowel value. Evans also used three diacritics to aid the reader in pronunciation. He used a macron (¯) over a vowel or vowels to represent nasals (/Ṽ/) and diaersis (¨) over the vowel to indicate a glottal stop (/ʔ/); if the glottal stop was final, he duplicated the vowel and would place a circumflex (ˆ) over the duplicated vowel. "Gladness," for example, was written as buubenandumooen (baapinendamowin in the Fiero system).

Evans eventually abandoned his Ojibwe writing system and formulated what would eventually become the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. His Ojibwe syllabics parsing order was based on his Romanized Ojibwe.

Bishop Frederic Baraga, in his years as a missionary to the Ojibwa and the Odawa, became the fore-most grammarian of Anishinaabemowin.

His work A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, explained in English is still considered the best reference regarding the Ojibwe vocabulary. In his dictionary, grammar books and prayer book, the sound representations of Ojibwe are shown in the table below. There has also been discussion regarding if Baraga represented nasal. In his earlier editions of the dictionary, circumflex accents were used to indicate nasals but in his later editions, they appear to instead either represent long vowels or stressed vowels, believed to be changed by the editor of his dictionary.

Jean André Cuoq was a missionary to the Algonquin and the Iroquois. He wrote several grammar books, hymnals, a catechism and his premier work Lexique de la Langue Algonquine in 1886, focusing on the form of Anishinaabemowin spoken among the Algonquin. His published works regarding the Algonquin language used basic sounds, without differentiating the consonant strengths or vowel lengths. However, unlike Baraga, Cuoq further broke words down to their root forms and clarified ambiguously defined words found in Baraga's dictionary.

See Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics for a more in-depth discussion of the Ojibwe syllabary and related scripts

The Ojibwe Syllabary — shown with Eastern A-Final and pre-glyph W. (Adapted from the charts of Rand Valentine and Language Geek)

The Ojibwe syllabary is primarily used by northern (i.e., Canadian) Ojibwe; speakers of more southern dialects (i.e., American speakers) tend to use the Double Vowel system more often. The syllabary involves ten basic symbols <∅ p t k ch m n s sh y> called "initials," which indicate the initial consonant of the syllable, used in conjunction with two alphabetic diacritcs called "medials." The <∅> character serves as a no-consonant character, and as a glottal stop character in some communities. The "initials" can be rotated into one of four directions, each direction representing one of the four primary vowels, . The vowels (except e) can be lengthened by adding a dot above the character. For example, the character for the syllable taa would be written by taking the t initial and rotating it in the a direction, then adding a dot above the symbol.

There are also "finals," smaller symbols which follow the main syllable character and indicate what, if any, final consonants the syllable has. For example, for the syllable taan, the taa character would be written, and then the n final placed to the right. Not all speakers indicate all finals in writing. Two major group of finals exists. "Eastern finals" are characterized by resembling a supercripted form of the initial, most commonly in the a direction, though other directions may be found. "Western finals" are characterised by having shapes independent of the initials.

The fortis consonants are generally not distinguished in the common unpointed writing from the lenis ones, and thus both /d/ () and /t/ () are written , etc. However, some speakers will place the initial before another initial to indicate that that initial is fortis rather than lenis.

The initial and final are also used to represent the glottal stop in most communities, but in some, a superscripted is used as a glottal stop character.