Sahai'a
Sahai'a is the alternative form of Sahaiʔa.
Meaning of Sahaiʔa
Proper noun
Sahaiʔa
- A female given name from Chipewyan. Alternative form of Sahą́ı̨́ʔą.
- One of the big challenges, it turns out, is the government itself. Last week, Shene Catholique-Valpy, an Aboriginal woman born and raised in the Northwest Territories, spoke out publicly about her year-long fight to have the the^([sic]) traditional Chipewyan spelling of her daughter’s name, Sahaiʔa...2015 March 12, Rachel Browne, “What’s in a name? A Chipewyan’s battle over her native tongue”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2015
Questions about Sahai'a
- What is Sahai'a the alternative form of?
- Sahai'a is the alternative form of Sahaiʔa.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sahai'a (page history and authors); Sahaiʔa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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